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LAWS  AND  ORDINANCES 

FOR  THE  GOVERNMENT  OP  THE 

HEALTH  DEPARTMENT 

OF  THE 

City  of  St.  Louis. 

1879. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE    BOARD  OF  HEALTH: 

Hon.  henry  OVEllSTOLZ,  Maj^or  and  Presiding  Officer. 

CHAKLES  W.  FRANCIS,     ■  LESLIE  A.  MOFFETT, 

Health  Commissioner.  From  Board  of  Police  Commissioners . 

W.  B.  CONERY,  M.  D.  JOS.  SPIEGELHALTER,  M.  D. 

JOHN  H.  LIGHTNER,  *" 

From  City  Council. 

CLERK  OF  HEALTH  COMMISSIONER  AND  BOARD  OF  HEALTH: 

ROBERT  LUEDEIQNG,  M.  D. 

DISPENSARY  PHYSICIAN:  ASSISTANT  DISPENSARY  PHYSICIAN: 

A.  C.  ROBINSON,  M.  D.  G.  W.  CARSON,  M.  D. 

ASSISTANT  CLERK:  RECORD  CLERK: 

JNO.  J.  FITZWILLL\M.  MORRIS  JACKS. 

SANITARY  OFFICERS: 

FIRST    SANITARY    OFFICER: 
GEORGE  HOMAN,  M.  D. 

ASSISTANT  SANITARY  OFFICERS: 

R.  H.  O'BRIEN,  M.  D.  J.  H.  MOORE,  M.  D. 

HENRY  REMNITZ. 

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ARTICLE  XII 


OF  THE  CHARTER  OF  THE  CITY  OF  ST.  LOUIS  RELAT- 
ING TO  THE  HEALTH  DEPARTMENT. 

HEALTH   DEPARTMENT. 


SKCTION. 

1.  Health  Commissioner;  his  official 

term  and  bond. 

2.  Board  of  Health;  meetings,  quo- 

rum, etc. 

3.  Duties  of  Commissioner ;  appoint- 

ment of  employes ;  may  examine 
premises;  shall  obey  orders  of 
Board,  and  report  annually  to 
Mayor. 

4.  Nuisances  to  be  reported  to  Com- 

missioner ;  births,  marriages  and 
deaths  to  be  registered;  Com- 
missioner to  have  charge  of 
hospitals,  asylums,  etc. 

5.  Superintendents  of  hospitals  and 

employes,  how  appointed. 

6.  Abatement  or  removal  of  nuisances ; 

notification  to  owners:   cost  of 


SECTION. 

abatement  to  be  assessed  as  a 
special  tax. 

7.  Contracts    for    the    abatement  of 

nuisances. 

8.  Proclamation  by  Mayor  in  time  of 

epidemics;  authority  of  Com- 
missioner and  Board  of  Health 
in  such  cases,  etc. 

9.  Commissioner's    record    and    ac- 

counts. 

10.  Duties  of  physicians  in  reference 

to  burial  certificates. 

11.  Weekly  report  of  interments  to  be 

made  to  Health  Commissioner. 

12.  Penalty  in  case  of  burial  without 

certificate. 

13.  Penalty  for  failure  to  make  weekly 

report  of  interments. 

14.  Record  of  proceedings  of  Board. 


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Section  1.  There  is  hereby  created  a  Health  Department  of 
the  City  of  St.  Louis,  which  shall  be  managed,  directed  and  con- 
trolled as  provided  by  this  Charter  and  by  ordinances  of  the  City 
of  St.. Louis,  by  a  Board  of  Health  as  hereinafter  provided,  and 
by  an  officer  who  shall  be  denominated  the  Health  Commissioner. 
He  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Mayor,  by  and  with  the  approval  of 
the  Council,  and  shall  perform  such  duties  as  may  be  provided  by 
this  Charter  and  by  ordinance.  He  shall  hold  his  office  for  the 
the  term  of  four  years,  and  until  his  successor  is  duly  qualified, 
be  subject  to  removal  by  the  Mayor  as  other  officers,  and  shall 
possess  the  same  qualifications  as  the  Mayor,  and  shall  give  bond 
in  such  sum  as  shall  be  ordained  by  the  Assembly,  with  at  least 
two  sufficient  sureties,  for  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duties. 

Sec.  2.  There  is  also  hereby  created  a  Board  of  Health,  which 
shall  consist  of  the  Mayor  (who  shall  be  its  presiding  officer),  the 
presiding  officer  of  the  Council,  a  Commissioner  of  Police,  to  be 
designated  by  the  Mayor,  and  two  regular  practicing  physicians, 
who  shall  possess  the  same  qualifications  as  the  Mayor.     The 


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Health  Commissioner  shall  be  a  member  of  said  Board,  and,  m 
the  absence  of  the  Mayor,  the  presiding  officer.  The  Board  shall 
meet  twice  in  each  week  during  the  year.  They  may  be  convened 
in  special  session  at  any  time  by  the  Mayor,  Health  Commissioner, 
or  by  any  two  members  of  the  Board,  upon  written  iiotitication 
served  iwelve  hours  before  the  date  of  said  meeting.  Three 
members  of  the  Board  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the  transac- 
tion of  business,  and  it  shall  have  power  to  adopt  rules  and  regu- 
lations for  its  government. 

Sec.  3.     The  Health  Commissioner  shall  have  general  super- 
vision over  the  public  health  of  said  city,  and  see  that  its  regula- 
tions, and  the  laws  and  ordinances  of  said  city  in  relation  thereto, 
are  enforced  and  observed,  and  for  that  purpose  he  is  authorized 
and  empowered  to  make  such  rules  and   regulations,  with  the 
approval  of  the  Board,  not  inconsistent  with  this  Charter  or  any 
city  ordinance  or  law  of  this  State,  as  will  tend  to  preserve  and 
promote  the  health  of  said  city ;  to  appoint  such  employes,  with 
the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Health,  as  may  be  necessary  for  the 
execution  of  his  orders ;  to  enter  into  or  authorize  and  require 
any  employe  or  police  officer  to  enter  into  and  examine,  in  the 
day  time,   all   buildings,  lots    and   places  of  every  description 
within  the  city,  and  to  ascertain  and  report  to  him  the  condition 
thereof,  so  far  as  the  public  health  may  be  affected  by  it;    to 
declare  and  abate  nuisances  in  such  manner  as  may  be  provided 
herein,  or  by  ordinance;    but  all   condemnations   must  first  be 
approved  by  the  Board  of  Health,  whose  action  thereon  shall  be 
final.     He  shall  obey  all  orders  not  inconsistent  with  this  Charter 
and  city  ordinances,  emanating  from  the  Board  of  Health,  and 
shall  annually  report  to  the  Mayor  the  general  operations  of  his 
department  during  the  year  then  ended,  with  such  suggestions 
for  the  improvement  of  the  same  as  he  shall  consider  expedient. 
Sec.  4.     It  is  made  the  duty  of  all  police  officers  to  observe 
the  sanitary  condition  of  their  districts,  and  through  the  Chief  of 
Police  to"  report  to  the  Health  Commissioner  promptly  any  nuis- 
ance or  accumulated  filth  found  to  exist  in  any  portion  of  .the 
city.     The  Health  Commissioner  shall  provide  for  the  registration 
of   all  births,  deaths  and  marriages  occurring  within  the  city ; 
shall  have  charge  of  all  city  hospitals,  quarantine,  insane  asylums, 
morgue  and  city  dispensary,  and  with  the  advice  and  counsel  of 
said  Board  of  Health  make  all  necessary  rules  for  the  government 
thereof. 

Sec.  5.  There  shall  be  a  Superintendent  of  the  City  Hospital, 
a  Superintendent  of  the  Female  Hospital,  a  Superintendent  of 
the  Insane  Asylum,  and  a  Superintendent  of  Quarantine  when 
necessary,  who  shall  perform  their  duties  under  the  general  super- 
visiou  of  the  Health  Commissioner,  and  shall  be  appointed  by  the 


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Mayor,  with  the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Health;  but  all  other 
employes  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Health  Commissioner,  and 
approved  \yy  the  Board  of  Health,  except  such  as  may  be  tempo- 
rarily in  the  employ  of  the  Health  Commissioner, 

Sec.  6.     In   order   to    effect   the   abatement   of  nuisances  or 
removal  of  accumulated  filth,  the  Health  Commissioner  shall  have 
power,  whenever  in  his  opinion  such  nuisance  or  tilth  exists,  and 
after  officially  so  declared  of  record  by  the  Board  of  Health,  to 
notify  the  owner  or  owners  thereof,  or  his  or  their  agents,  to  abate 
or  remove  the  same,  either  by  filling  up,  draining,  cleaning,  puri- 
fying or  removing  same,  as  the  case  may  be,  which  notice  shall 
be  served  upon  the  owner  or  agent  having  charge  of  said  property, 
in  the  same  manner  as  writs  of  summons  are  required  to  be  served 
in    civil    cases.     If  the  owner,   who   shall  have   been    so  served 
with   such   notice,  shall   fail   within   the  time  indicated  in  such 
notice,  which  shall  be  discretionary  with  said  Health  Commis- 
sioner,  to  comply  with  such  order,  or  fail  to  show  good  cause 
to   said    Health  Commissioner  why  he   cannot  or  ought   not  to 
comply  with  such  order,  for  which  purpose  he  shall  be  entitled 
to  be  heard  before  said  Health  Commissioner  and  Board  of  Health, 
if  he  so  request  it,  he  shall   be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor, 
and  on  conviction,   shall  be    fined   not  exceeding  five   hundred 
dollars ;  and  the  nuisance  shall  be  abated,  and  special  tax  bills 
rendered  against  the  property  in  same   manner  as  against  non- 
residents, except  that  notice  by  advertisement  shall  not  be  nec- 
essary.    If  such  service  cannot  be  made  for  the  reason  that  the 
owner,  agents,  or  other  persons  having  charge  of  the  property 
upon  which  the  nuisance  may  exist,  cannot  be  found  in  the  city, 
of  which  fact  the  return  upon  such  notice  of  the  officer  serving 
the  same   shall   be  conclusive  evidence,  then  the  Health   Com- 
missioner shall  cause  such  notice  to  be  published  in  the  newspapers 
doing   the   city  printing,    for   two    consecutive    days    (Sundays 
excepted).     And  if  within  two  days  after  the    service    of  such 
notice,  or  after  its  publication  as  aforesaid,  such  nuisance  shall 
not  be  abated,    or  the   order  observed  by  the  owner,  then  the 
Health  Commissioner  may  order  the  same  to  be  done  as  hereinafter 
directed;  and  the  cost  of  the  same,  when  fully  completed^  shall 
be  ascertained  under  the  direction  of  the  President  of  the  Board 
of  Public  Improvements,  in  the  same  manner  as  special  tax  bills 
for  street  improvements  :  and  the  amount  thereof  shall  be  assessed 
as  a  special  tax  against  the  property  so  improved,  or  upon  which 
such  work  has  been  done,  in  the  name  of  the  owners  thereof,  of 
which  the  books  of  the  Assessor  shall  be  proof,  and  the  certified 
bills  of  such  assessment  shall  describe  therein  the  property  upon 
which  the  work  was  done.     Said  bills  shall  be  recorded  and  shall 
be  collected  and  paid  as  provided  in  this  Charter  in  relation  to 


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the  collection  of  other  special  tax  bills,  and  shall  be  a  lien  on  said 
property,  and  the  Heath  Commissioner  shall  keep  a  record  of  his 
proceedings  in  all  cases  of  abatements  ordered  by  him. 

Sec.  7.  All  contracts  for  work  contemplated  by  this  section 
on  which  special  tax  bills  are  to  be  issued,  shall  be  entered  into 
by  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Public  Improvements,  in  the 
name  of  the  city,  based  on  the  estimates  of  the  cost  by  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Board  of  Public  Improvements,  accompanied  by 
reports  of  surveys  and  profiles,  in  cases  requiring  the  same  in  the 
judgment  of  such  President,  and  shall  be  approved  by  the  Mayor 
and  registered  in  the  office  of  the  Comptroller. 

Sec.  8.  Whenever  it  shall  come  to  the  knowledge  of  the 
Mayor  that  any  malignant,  infectious  or  contagious  disease  or 
epidemic  is  prevalent  in  the  city,  or  will  probably  become  so,  he 
may  make  proclamation  of  such  fact  to  the  inhabitants ;  and  after 
such  proclamation  the  Health  Commissioner,  with  the  approval 
of  the  Board  of  Health,  may  have  power,  by  order,  to  take  all 
steps  and  use  all  measures  necessary  to  avoid,  suppress  or  miti- 
gate such  disease,  without  the  intervention  of  the  Assembly,  in 
the  same  manner  and  as  effectually  as  the  Assembly  could  itself 
do  by  ordinance ;  and  may  employ  such  officers,  agents,  servants 
and  assistants,  establish  temporary  hospitals,  provide  necessary 
furniture,  medical  attendance  and  nurses,  as  in  the  opinion  of  the 
said  Commissioner,  with  the  advice  and  counsel  of  said  Board  of 
Health,  may  be  necessary  and  advisable;  Pr^ovided,  That  the 
amount  expended  shall  not  exceed  the  appropriation  for  Health 
Department.  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  have  and  exercise 
such  power  until  he  shall  declare,  or  until  the  Mayor  shall  pro- 
claim, that  the  epidemic  or  disease,  in  view  of  which  the  procla- 
mation was  made,  is  no  longer  imminent  or  prevalent,  whereupon 
the  said  power  shall  cease. 

Sec.  9.  Said  Health  Commissioner  shall  keep  a  record  of  his 
acts  and  orders ;  shall  file  all  petitions,  documents  and  papers  be- 
longing to  the  office,  and  shall  keep  a  correct  account  in  full  of 
all  receipts  and  expenditures,  and  shall  make  rules  and  regula- 
tions for  the  government  of  his  subordinates,  copies  of  such 
records,  documents,  rules  and  regulations,  when  authenticated  by 
his  clerk,  shall  be  presumptive  evidence  in  any  court  of  justice 
of  the  facts  therein  contained ;  Provided,  such  rules  and  regula- 
tions are  not  inconsistent  with  this  Charter  or  ordinances. 

Sec.  10.  For  the  purpose  of  carrying  the  provisions  of  this 
article  into  effect,  every  physician  who  may  practice  medicine  in 
the  City  of  St.  Louis  shall,  when  a  patient  dies  under  his  care, 
make  out  two  certificates,  stating  the  name,  age,  sex,  color  and 
place  of  birth,  and  place  and  date  of  death,  together  with  the 
name  of  the  disease  of  which  said  person  died,  one  of  which  he 


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shall,  without  delay,  deposit  in  the  office  of  said  Health  Commis- 
sioner, and  the  other  he  shall  give  to  the  undertaker  of  the 
funeral,  to  be  delivered  by  him  to  the  person  who  has  control  of  the 
graveyard  in  which  the  body  is  buried.  And  if  any  physician  or 
undertaker  refuse  or  omit  to  do  as  aforesaid,  he  shall  forfeit  and 
pay  five  dollars  to  the  use  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  to  be  re- 
covered as  provided  for  in  section  twelve  of  this  article. 

Sec.  11.  All  overseers,  sextons,  or  other  persons  who  may 
have  control  over  public  graveyards  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis, 
shall  make  a  weekly  report  to  the  Health  Commissioner  of  all 
interments  during  the  week  in  the  graveyard  whereof  they  are 
such  overseer  or  sexton  respectively.  Said  report  shall  specify 
the  names  and  ages  of  the  persons  interred,  sex,  color  and  place 
of  birth,  and  place  and  date  of  death,  and  also  the  disease  of 
which  said  persons  died. 

Sec.  12.  If  any  overseer,  sexton,  or  other  person  having 
control  of  a  graveyard,  shall  permit  any  person  to  be  interred  in 
said  graveyard  without  a  certificate  stating  the  name,  age,  sex, 
color,  place  of  birth,  place  and  date  of  death,  together  with  the 
disease  of  which  said  person  died,  signed  by  the  physician  who 
attended  said  person,  he  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  sum  not  less 
than  five  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars,  to  be  recovered  as  in 
other  cases  of  misdemeanor,  before  any  court  or  officer  having 
competent  jurisdiction. 

Sec.  13.  If  any  overseer,  sexton,  or  other  person  charged 
with  the  performance  of  such  duty,  fail  or  neglect  to  make  to  the 
Health  Commissioner  such  report  of  weekly  interments,  he  shall 
forfeit  and  pay  not  less  than  twenty  dollars  for  every  such  failure, 
to  be  recovered  in  like  manner  as  provided  in  the  last  preceding 
section. 

Sec.  14.  The  Board  of  Health  shall  keep  a  full  and  correct 
record  of  its  proceedings  and  acts,  and  the  clerk  of  said  Health 
Commissioner  shall  act  as  the  clerk  of  the  said  Board. 

[10,311.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  establishing  and  regulating  the  office  of 
Health  Commissioner,  defining  his  duties  and  powers,  and  fixing 
his  salary  and  bond. 

Whereas,  an  emergency  has  arisen,  there  being,  no  ordinance 
in  existence  establishing  and  regulating  the  office  of  Health  Com- 
missioner, defining  his  duties  and  powers,  and  fixing  his  salary 
and  bond,  and. 

Whereas,  the  Charter  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  provides  that 
the  Municipal  Assembly  shall  prescribe  the  duties  and  fix  the 
bonds  of  all  officers ;  therefore  this  ordinance  shall  take  efiect  and 
be  in  full  force  from  and  after  its  approval  by  the  Mayor.' 


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Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  St,  Louis, 
as  follows  : 

Section  1.  There  is  hereby  created  the  office  of  Health  Com- 
missioner. Said  Health  Commissioner  shall  be  appointed  b}^  the 
Mayor,  with  the  approval  of  the  Council ;  he  shall  perform  such 
duties  as  may  be  provided  by  the  Charter  and  ordinances  of  the 
City  of  St.  Louis.  He  shall  hold  his  office  for  the  term  of  four 
years,  and  until  his  successor  is  duly  qualified,  and  be  subject  to 
removal  by  the  Mayor  or  Council,  as  other  city  officers,  and  shall 
possess  the  same  qualifications  as  the  Mayor. 

Sec.  2.  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  have  general  super- 
vision over  the  public  health  of  the  city,  and  see  that  its  regula- 
tions, and  the  laws  and  ordinances  of  said  city  in  relation  thereto 
are  enforced  and  observed,  and  for  that  purpose  is  authorized  and 
empowered  to  make  such  rules  and  regulations,  with  the  approval 
of  the  Board  of  Health,  not  inconsistent  with  the  Charter,  or  any 
city  ordinance  or  law  of  the  state,  as  will  tend  to  preserve  and 
promote  the  health  of  said  city,  and  to  appoint  such  employes, 
with  the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Health,  as  may  be  necessary^ 
for  the  execution  of  his  orders ;  to  enter  into  or  authorize  and 
require  any  employe  or  police  officer  to  enter  into  and  examine,  in 
the  day-time,  all  buildings,  lots,  and  places  of  every  description, 
within  the  city,  and  to  ascertain  and  report  to  him  the  condition 
thereof,  so  far  as  the  public  health  may  be  afiected  by  it ;  to  de- 
clare and  abate  nuisances  in  such  manner  as  may  be  provided  by 
the  Charter,  or  by  the  ordinances  of  the  city ;  but  all  such  con- 
demnation must  first  be  approved  by  the  Board  of  Health,  whose 
action  theron  shall  be  final,  and  shall  provide  for  the  registration 
of  all  births,  deaths  and  marriages  within  the  city,  shall  have 
charge  of  all  City  Hospitals,  Quarantine,  Insane  Asylum,  Morgue, 
and  City  Dispensary,  and  with  the  advice  and  counsel  of  the  Board 
of  Health,  make  all  necessary  rules  for  the  government  thereof. 
He  shall  obey  all  orders  not  inconsistent  with  the  Charter  and 
city  ordinances  emanating  from  the  Board  of  Health,  and  shall 
annually  report  to  the  Mayor  the  general  operations  of  his  de- 
partment during  the  year  then  ended,  with  such  suggestions  for 
the  improvement  of  the  same,  as  he  shall  consider  expedient. 

Sec.  3  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  keep  a  record  of  all  his 
acts  and  orders,  and  shall  file  all  petitions,  documents  and  papers 
belonging  to  his  office,  and  shall  keep  a  correct  account  in  full  of 
all  receipts  and  expenditures,  and  shall  make  rules  and  regula- 
tions for  the  government  of  his  subordinates.  Copies  of  such 
records,  documents,  rules  and  regulations,  when  authenticated  by 
his  clerk,  shall  be  presumptive  evidence  before  any  court  of 
justice  of  the  facts  therein  contained ;  Provided,  such  rules  and 


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regulations  are  not  inconsistent  with  the  Charter  or  ordinances  of 
the  city. 

Sec.  4.  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  receive  a  salary  of 
three  thousand  dollars  a  year,  payable  monthly,  and  shall,  before 
entering  upon  the  duties  of  his  office  give  a  good  and  suf- 
ficient bond  in  the  sum  often  thousand  dollars,  conditioned  as  the 
bonds  of  other  city  officers,  and  to  be  approved  by  the  Mayor. 

Sec.  5.  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  devote  his  entire  time 
to  the  duties  of  his  office. 

Sec.  6.  All  employes  appointed  by  said  Health  Commissioner 
shall  be  citizens  of  the  United  States,  and  shall  have  been  resi- 
dents of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  for  at  least  two  years  next  pre- 
ceding their  appointment. 

Approved  May  29,  1877. 

[10,330.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  creating  and  establishing  the  Health  De- 
partment and  Board  of  Health  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  defining 
the  powers  and  duties  of  the  Board  and  their  compensation,  pro- 
viding for  the  clerk  of  the  Health  Commissioner  and  Board  of 
Health,  prescribing  his  duties,  fixing  his  bond  and  salary,  provid- 
ing for  the  fixing  of  the  wages  of  employes,  to  establish  a  Dispen- 
sary, providing  for  the  appointment  of  Dispensary  physician, 
and  an  apothecary,  and  to  repeal  article  1,  chapter  12  of  the  Re- 
vised Ordinances  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  31, 
1871. 

Whereas,  An  emergency  has  arisen,  there  being  no  ordinance 
in  existance  establishing  and  regulating  the  Health  Department  of 
the  City  of  St.  Louis,  and  defining  its  powers  and  duties,  and 

Whereas,  the  Charter  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  prescribes  that 
such  a  department  shall  be  created,  and  that  the  Municipal  Assem- 
bly shall  by  ordinance  prescribe  the  powers  and  duties  ;  therefore, 
this  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  full  force  from  and  after 
its  passage. 

Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  8t,  Louis, 
as  follows: 

Section  1.  There  is  hereby  created  a  Health  Department  for 
the  City  of  St.  Louis,  which  shall  be  managed,  directed  and  con- 
trolled as  provided  for  by  the  Charter  and  ordinances  of  the  City 
of  St.  Louis  by  a  Board  of  Health  and  by  a  Health  Commissioner. 

Sec.  2.  The  Board  of  Health,  as  hereby  constituted,  shall 
consist  of  the  Mayor,  who  shall  be  its  presiding  officer,  the  pre- 
siding officer  of  the  Council,  a  Commissioner  of  Police,  to  be 


10  Laws  and   Ordinances 

designated  by  the  Mayor,  and  two  regular  practicing  physicians, 
who  shall  possess  the  same  qualifications  as  the  Mayor,  and  who 
shall  be  appointed  by  the  Mayor  and  confirmed  by  the  Council. 
The  Health  Commissioner  shall  be  a  member  of  the  Board,  and, 
in  the  absence  of  the  Mayor,  the  presiding  officer.  The  Board 
shall  meet  twice  in  each  week  during  the  year.  They  may  be 
convened  in  special  session  at  any  time  by  the  Mayor,  Health 
Commissioner,  or  by  any  two  members  of  the  Board,  upon  a 
written  notification,  served  twelve  hours  before  the  date  of  said 
meeting.  Three  members  of  the  Board  shall  constitute  a  quorum 
for  the  transaction  of  business.  The  Board  shall  have  power  to 
adopt  rules  and  regulations  for  its  government.  In  case  of  the 
absence  of  both  the  presiding  officers  of  the  Board,  as  established 
by  this  ordinance,  and  also  the  Health  Commissioner,  from  any 
regular  or  special  meeting,  the  other  members  are  hereby  empow- 
ered and  authorized  to  organize  the  Board,  and  conduct  their 
business  by  electing  a  presiding  officer  ^?'o  tempore. 

Sec.  3.  The  members  of  the  Board  of  Health  shall  hold  their 
office  for  the  term  of  four  years  and  until  their  successors  are  duly 
elected  or  appointed  and  qualified  ;  Provided,  however,  that  the 
first  appointments  under  this  ordinance  shall  hold  their  office  until 
the  first  Tuesday  in  April,  1879,  only.  They  shall,  except  the 
Mayor,  Health  Commissioner,  President  of  the  Council  and  Police 
Commissioner,  receive  a  salary  of  five  hundred  dollars  each,  per 
annum,  payable  monthly. 

Sec.  4.  The  Board  of  Health  shall  cause  to  be  kept  in  suitable 
books,  a  full  and  correct  record  of  its  proceedings  and  acts.  They 
shall  also  cause  to  be  kept  a  full  and  correct  account  of  all 
expenses  incurred  by  their  authority,  specifying  the  amounts, 
why,  and  when,  and  how  incurred,  for  what  purpose  applied,  and 
also  a  correct  account  of  moneys  received  by  them  from  whatever 
source.  They  shall  also  cause  to  be  kept  a  book  for  the  registra- 
tion of  all  physicians  who  have  complied  with  all  ordinances 
governing  physicians  and  shall  furnish  a  copy  of  the  same  to  any 
druggist  or  apothecary  applying  therefor.  Before  any  money  is 
paid  out,  the  accounts  therefor  shall  be  examined  and  approved  by 
a  majority  of  the  Board,  and  signed  and  approved  by  the  Presi- 
dent or  Health  Commissioner,  and  attested  by  the  clerk,  and  such 
accounts  if  so  certified,  shall  be  audited  by  the  Auditor  in  the  same 
way  other  accounts  are  audited  and  he  shall  draw  his  warrants  on 
the  Treasurer  for  such  amounts  according  to  law ;  but  all  articles 
of  every  kind  and  description  that  may  be  required  in  any  and 
all  of  the  institutions  and  departments  under  the  charge  of  the 
Board  of  Health  shall  be  purchased  as  may  be  provided  for  by 
the  Charter  and  ordinances. 


Governing  the  Health  Department.  11 

Sec.  5.  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  appoint  some  fit  and 
competent  person,  who  shall  possess  the  qualifications  as  pre- 
scribed by  section  10,  article  4  of  the  Charter,  as  clerk  of  the 
Health  Commissioner,  and  such  appointment  shall  be  subject  to 
the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Health.  The  Clerk  of  the  Health 
Commissioner  shall  act  as  the  clerk  of  the  Board  of  Health.  Said 
clerk  shall  receive  a  salary  of  eighteen  hundred  dollars  per  year, 
I  payable  monthly,  and  shall,  before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  his 
office,  give  a  good  and  sufficient  bond  in  the  sum  of  five  thousand 
dollars,  conditioned  as  the  bond  of  other  city  officers,  and  be*  ap- 
proved by  the  Mayor  and  Council.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Clerk  to  attend  at  the  office  of  the  Board  of  Health  and  of  the 
Health  Commissioner,  attend  all  meetings  of  the  Board,  record 
its  proceedings  in  suitable  books,  issue  its  orders,  sign  all  notices 
and  attest  all  copies  of  papers  and  proceedings,  and  to  do  and 
perform  all  such  duties  iis  may  be  required  of  him  by  the  Board 
of  Health  and  the  Health  Commissioner.  He  shall  also  keep  a 
record  of  all  acts  and  orders  of  the  Health  Commissioner,  shall 
file  all  petitions,  documents  and  papers  belonging  to  the  office  of 
Health  Conynissioner  and  Board  of  Health,  and  shall  keep  a  cor- 
rect account  in  full  of  all  receipts  and  expenditures  in  said  offices 
and  a  strict  account  of  all  moneys  and  effects  that  may  come  into 
his  possession,  and  he  shall  devote  his  time  to  the  duties  of  his 
office. 

Sec.  8.  Article  1,  chapter  12,  of  the  Eevised  Ordinances  of 
the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  31,  1871,  is  hereby  re- 
pealed. 

Approved  July  17,  1877. 

[11,061.] 

AN  OKDINACE  providing  for  the  government  and  manage- 
ment of  the  Hospitals  and  Dispensary  and  Insane  Asylum,  and 
to  repeal  ordinance  No.  10,366,  entitled  <«An  ordinance  providing 
for  the  government  and  management  of  the  Hospitals  and  Morgue 
of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  the  appointment  of  the  Superintendents 
and  assistants,  fixing  their  salaries  and  prescribing  their  duties,  and 
to  repeal  article  five,  chapter  twelve,  of  the  Revised  Ordinances  of 
the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  thirty-tirst,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  seventy-one,  and  to  repeal  ordinance  number  eight 
thousand  nine  hundred  and  ten,  entitled  "An  ordinance  to  authorize 
the  establishment  of  a  City  Hospital  for  Females,"  approved  June 
seventeen,  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-four."  Also  to  repeal 
ordinance  number  ten  thousand  three  hundred  and  twenty-eight, 
entitled  "An  ordinance  establishing  and  regulating  the  office  of 
Superintendent  of  the  Insane  Asylum,"  approved  July  seventeenth, 


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eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-seven,  and  to  repeal  sections  six  and 
seven  of  ordinance  number  ten  thousand  three  hundred  and  thirty, 
entitled  "An  ordinance  creating  the  Health  Department  and  Board 
of  Health,"  approved  July  seventeenth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
seventy-seven,  and  to  repeal  ordinance  number  ten  thousand  three 
hundred  and  thirty-four,  entitled  and  '*An  ordinance  establishing 
and  regulating  the  management  of  the  Insane  Asylum,"  approved 
July  thirty-first,  eighteen  hundred  seventy-seven,  and  to  repeal 
article  five,  chapter  twelve  of  the  Revised  Ordinances  of  the  City 
of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  thirty-first,  eighteen  hundred  and 
seventy-one,  and  to  repeal  ordinance  eight  thousand  nine  hundred 
and  ten,  entitled  "An  ordinance  to  authorize  the  establishment  of 
a  City  Hospital  for  Females,"  approved  June  seventeenth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  seventy-four. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  St,  Louis, 
as  follows : 

Section  1.  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  have  general  super- 
intendence and  management  over  all  the  City  Hospitals,  Dispen- 
saries and  Insane  Asylum  that  now  are,  or  hereafter  may  be, 
established. 

Sec.  2.  All  requisitions  for  supplies  or  repairs  for  the  Hospi- 
tals, Dispensary  and  Insane  Asylum  shall  be  approved  by  the 
Health  Commissioner,  and  all  accounts  against  said  Hospitals, 
Dispensary  and  Insane  Asylum,  when  signed  by  the  Health  Com- 
missioner, shall  be  examined,  approved  and  signed  by  a  majority 
of  the  Board  of  Health,  and  certified  to  by  the  president  or  Health 
Commissioner  and  attested  by  the  clerk,  whereupon  the  Auditor 
shall  draw  his  warrant  upon  the  Treasurer  therefor.  If  the  Board 
of  Health  find  any  articles  have  been  purchased  (or  repairs  made) 
on  requisitions  signed  by  the  Health  Commissioner  which  thej^  do 
not  deem  necessary,  they  shall,  if  a  majority  of  the  Board  so 
decide,  refer  the  whole  matter  to  the  Mayor,  who  shall  take  such 
action  as  he  shall  think  proper. 

Sec.  3.  The  Health  Commissioner,  with  the  advice  and  approval 
of  the  Board  of  Health,  shall  prescribe  the  condition  of  admission 
to,  and  make  all  necessary  rules  for  the  government  of,  the 
Hospitals,  Dispensaries  and  Insane  Asylum. 

Sec.  4.  There  shall  be  a  Superintendent  of  the  City  Hospital, 
a  Superintendent  of  the  Female  Hospital,  a  Superintendent  of  the 
Insane  Asylum,  and,  when  necessary,  a  Superintendent  of  Quar- 
antine ;  said  superintendents  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Mayor, 
with  the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Health,  and  subject  to  con- 
firmation by  the  Council,  and  shall  perform  their  duties  under  the 
general  supervision  of  the  Health  Commissioner,  and  shall  hold 


Governing  the  Health  Department,  13 

their  offices  for  the  term  of  four  years,  from  the  first  Tuesday  of 
April,  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-nine,  and  until  their  succes- 
sors are  appointed  and  qualified.  Said  superintendents  shall  each 
give  a  bond  to  the  city  in  the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars,  con- 
ditioned upon  the  faithful  discharge  of  their  duties  and  accounting 
for  all  property  to  the  city  which  comes  into  their  possession  or 
under  their  control.  Said  bond  shall  be  secured  by  two  or  more 
securities,  who  shall  beholders  of  unincumbered  real  estate  in  the 
City  of  St.  Louis,  and  shall  be  approved  by  the  Mayor  and 
Council. 

Sec.  5.  The  Superintendents  shall  be  physicians  in  good 
standing,  and  of  recognized  professional  knowledge  and  ^kill,  and 
graduates  of  some  reputable  medical  school.  The  Superintend- 
ents shall  have  supervision  of  the  management  of  the  institutions 
under  their  respective  charge,  and  shall  have  control  of  the  officers 
and  employes  in  said  institutions,  and  shall  have  power  to  dis- 
charge any  of  said  employes,  or  to  suspend  any  of  the  assistant 
physicians  or  other  officers  engaged  at  said  institutions  for  neglect 
of  dnty  or  gross  violation  of  the  rules.  When  the  Superintend- 
ents shall  find  it  necessary  to  discharge  any  employe,  or  suspend 
any  assistant  physician  or  other  officer,  they  shall  report  the  fact 
of  such  discharge  or  suspension,  and  the  cause  of  such  action  to 
the  Health  Commissioner.  If  the  Health  Commissioner  does  not 
approve  of  the  action  of  the  Superintendents  in  the  discharge  or 
suspension  of  any  officer  or  employe,  he  shall  refer  the  whole 
matter  to  the  Board  of  Health,  which  shall  take  such  action  as  it 
shall  deem  proper.  The  Superintendents  shall  have  entire  con- 
trol of  the  patients  in  their  respective  institutions,  and  shall  be 
responsible  for  their  welfare  and  the  care  taken  of  them,  subject 
to  the  rules  prescribed  by  the  Health  Commissioner.  The  Super- 
intendents shall  live  in  the  institutions  and  shall  devote  the  whole 
of  their  time  to  the  services  of  the  institutions.  The  Superin- 
tendents and  their  wives  and  children  shall  receive  boarding  and 
washing  at  the  institutions,  and  may,  with  the  approval  of  the 
Health  Commissioner,  keep  a  horse  of  their  own,  and  the  Super- 
intendents are  alone  authorized  to  discharge  patients  from  the 
institutions. 

Sec.  6.  The  Health  Commissioner,  with  the  approval  of  the 
Board  of  Health,  may  appoint  one  or  more  assistants  to  the 
Superintendents  of  the  hospitals  and  Insane  Asylum  to  serve  for 
one  year,  unless  sooner  removed  by  the  Health  Commissioner ; 
said  assistants  shall  be  graduates  of  some  regular  medical  school, 
and  shall  perform  such  duties  as  may  be  required  of  them;  they 
shall  receive  boarding  and  washing  at  the  hospital,  but  no  salary 
shall  be  allowed  said  assistants.  One  of  said  assistants  shall 
speak  the  German  and  English  languages  fluently. 


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Sec.  7.  Students  of  medicine,  when  accompanied  by  a  pro- 
fessor of  any  of  the  medical  colieires  in  this  city,  all  of  whose 
faculty  are  registered  physicians,  as  provided  by  ordinance  num- 
ber ten  thousand  three  hundred  and  eighty-six,  may  be  admitted 
to  the  wards  and  lecture  rooms  in  the  hospital  at  such  hours  and 
days  of  the  week  as  may  be  designated  by  the  Health  Commis- 
sioner ;  but  no  lecture  shall  be  held  in  the  presence  of  the 
patients  in  said  hospitals.  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  desig- 
nate to  the  respective  medical  schools  visiting  said  hospital,  the 
days  and  hours  they  will  be  respectively  allowed  to  visit  said 
hospital.  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  have  power  to  suspend 
the  exercise  of  the  privilege  herein  granted  to  medical  schools, 
for  any  violation  of  established  rules,  or  for  any  failure  to  comply 
with  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  8.  No  surgical  operation  shall  be  performed  in  any  of 
the  hospitals  belonging  to  the  City  of  St.  Louis  without  the  con- 
sent and  indorsement  of  the  Superintendent  thereof,  nor  shall 
any  capital  operation  be  performed  in  such  hospital  without  the  con- 
sent and  indorsement  of  the  Superintendent,  and  upon  consulta- 
tion with  one  of  the  consulting  physicians  or  one  of  the  medical 
members  of  the  Board  of  Health,  except  in  cases  of  emergencies. 

Sec.  9.  No  clinical  lectures  shall  be  delivered  at  the  bedside 
of  the  patients,  or  in  any  ward  set  apart  for  and  occupied  by  them. 

Sec.  10.  Convalescent  patients  may  be  required  to  perform 
such  labor  about  the  hospitals  as  may  be  demanded  of  them  ;  pro- 
vided the  Superintendent  is  satisfied  that  such  labor  will  not 
retard  recovery. 

Sec.  11.  No  male  patient  shall  be  received  in  the  Female 
Hospital  under  any  circumstances. 

Sec.  12.  The  Female  Hospital  shall  be  used  exclusively  for 
the  reception  of  females,  and  all  the  inmates  committed  to  said 
hospital  may  be  employed  at  such  needle  work  or  other  useful 
industry  as  they  may  be  able  to  perform,  and  any  convalescent 
inmate  so  desiring  may,  with  the  permission  of  the  Health  Com- 
missioner, remain  a  sufficient  length  of  time  to  enable  her  to  pro- 
cure employment,  or  until  she  can  be  placed  in  communication 
with  her  friends. 

Sec.  13.  The  institution  heretofore  known  as  the  *«  Social 
Evil  Hospital  and  House  of  Industry,"  shall  be  hereafter  known 
and  designated  as  the  Female  Hospital. 

Sec.  14.  Whenever  it  shall  be  necessary  to  send  to  any  of 
the  hospitals  any  child  under  ten  years  of  age,  the  Health  Com- 
missioner shall  have  the  power,  if  he  thinks  proper,  to  allow  the 
parent  to  go  to  the  hospital  and  remain  and  nurse  said  child. 

Sec.  15.  The  Superintendent  of  the  City  Hospital  shall  have 
charge  and  care  of  the  convicts  iu  the  Workhouse,  and  shall  re- 


Governing  the  Health  Department,  15 

ceive  a  salary  of  twenty -two  hundred  dollars  per  annum,  payable 
monthly.  The  Superintendent  of  the  Female  Hospital  shall  have 
medical  charge  of  the  health  of  the  inmates  of  the  City  Poor 
House,  and  shall  receive  a  salary  of  twenty-two  hundred  dollars 
per  annum,  payable  monthly.  Should  the  Board  of  Health  at 
any  time  find  it  necessary  to  appoint  a  Superintendent  of  Quar- 
antine, they  shall  report  their  action  to  the  Municipal  Assembly, 
who  thereupon  shall  fix  his  compensation.  The  Superintendent 
of  the  Insane  Asylum  shall  receive  a  salary  of  two  thousand  dol- 
lars per  annum,  payable  monthly. 

Sec.  16.  The  Health  Commissioner  may,  with  the  approval  of 
the  Board  of  Health,  establish  a  dispensary  at  his  office  and  else- 
where, for  the  purpose  of  dispensing  medical  advice  and  medicines 
to  such  applicants  as  are  sick  and  indigent.  The  Health  Com- 
missioner shall  appoint  two  competent  persons  as  dispensary  physi- 
cians and  two  competent  persons  to  serve  as  apothecaries.  Said 
appointments  shall  be  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Board  of 
Health.  The  salary  of  the  dispensary  physician  shall  be  twelve 
hundred  dollars  per  annum,  and  that  of  his  assistant  nine  hundred 
dollars  per  annum,  payable  monthly.  The  salaries  of  the  apothe- 
caries shall  be  eight  hundred  dollars  per  annum,  payable  monthly. 
The  Dispensary  physician  shall  have  charge  and  care  of  the  health 
of  the  inmates  of  the  Jail,  and  the  medicine  for  such  patients 
shall  be  furnished  from  the  Dispensary. 

Sec.  17.  The  building  on  Arsenal  street  heretofore  know  as 
the  *'  County  Insane  Asylum,"  and  acquired  by  the  City  of  St. 
Louis  by  the  ratification  of  the  Scheme  and  Charter,  is  hereby 
established  and  shall  be  known  as  the  Insane  Asylum  of  the  City 
of  St.  Louis.       / 

Sec.  18.  All  insane  persons  who  may  be  found  within  the 
City  of  St.  Louis,  and  who  may  become  a  charge  upon  the  city 
for  care  and  support,  shall  not  be  kept  or  confined  in  any  of  the 
city  hospitals,  but  shall  be  sent  to  the  Insane  Asylum,  and  be  kept 
there  until  it  can  be  determined  by  the  Board  of  Health  what  dis- 
position to  make  of  said  person,  but  no  person  shall  be  admitted 
to  the  Insane  Asylum  under  the  provisions  of  this  section  unless 
they  have  been  first  examined  by  a  physician  of  the  Health  De- 
partment and  found  fit  subjects  for  treatment  in  the  Insane 
Asylum. 

Sec.  19.  Before  any  citizen  or  other  person  shall  secure  the 
admission  of  any  indigent  insane  person  to  the  Insane  Asylum, 
they  shall  first  make  oath  before  the  Board  of  Health,  which  oath 
shall  be  duly  attested  by  the  presiding  officer  and  clerk  of  the 
Board,  and  made  of  record  in  the  proceedings  of  said  Board. 
Said  oath  shall  specifically  set  forth  that  the  person  for  whom  ad- 
mission is  sought  to   the  asylum   is    entirely   destitute    of  any 


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financial  means  to  compensate  the  city  for  his  or  her  keeping  in 
the  Insane  Asylum,  and  if  a  minor,  that  his  or  her  parents  or 
guardians  are  unable  and  destitute  of  the  financial  means  to  com- 
pensate the  city  for  his  or  her  keeping  in  the  Insane  Asylum  of 
the  City  of  St.  Louis. 

Sec.  20.  Ordinance  number  10,366,  entitled  <'An  ordinance 
providing  for  the  government  and  management  of  the  hospitals 
and  Morgue  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  the  appointment  of  the 
superintendents  and  assistants,  fixing  their  salaries  and  prescrib- 
ing their  duties,  and  to  repeal  article  5,  chapter  12,  of  the  Kevised 
Ordinances  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  31,  1871  ; 
and  to  repeal  ordinance  number  8,910,  entitled  *«An  ordinance  to 
authorize  the  establishment  of  a  City  Hospital  for  Females," 
approved  June  17,  1874;  ordinance  number  10,328,  entitled  '*An 
ordinance  establishing  and  regulating  the  office  of  Superintendent 
of  the  Insane  Asylum,  approved  July  17,  1877  ;  ordinance  num- 
ber 10,334,  entitled  "An  ordinance  regulating  the  management 
of  the  Insane  Asylum  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,"  approved  July 
31,  1877 ;  and  sections  six  and  seven  of  ordinance  number 
10,330,  entitled  **An  ordinance  creating  and  establishing  the 
Health  Department  and  Board  of  Health,  defining  the  powers 
and  duties  of  the  Board  and  their  compensation,  providing" for 
the  clerk  of  the  Health  Commissioner  and  Board  of  Health,  pre- 
scribing his  duties,  fixing  his  bond  and  salary,  providing  for  the 
fixing  of  the  wages  of  employes,  to  establish  a  dispensary,  pro- 
viding for  the  appointment  of  dispensary  physicians  and  apothe- 
cary, and  to  repeal  article  one,  chapter  12,  of  the  Revised  Ordi- 
nances of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  31,  1871,  are 
hereby  repealed. 

Approved  April  5,  1879. 

[10,978.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  establishing  quarantine  station  and  author- 
izing and  defining  quarantine  regulations  for  the  City  of  St.  Louis, 
and  to  repeal  article  six  of  chaptei  twelve  of  the  Revised  Ordin- 
ances of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  thirty-first, 
eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-one. 

Whereas,  clause  six  of  section  twenty-six  of  article  three  of 
the  Charter  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  empowers  the  Municipal 
Assembly  to  establish  and  enforce  quarantine  laws  and  regulations 
to  prevent  the  introduction  and  spread  of  contagious  diseases ; 
therefore, 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis, 
as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  Health  Commissioner,  by  and  with  the  appro- 
val of  the  Board  of  Health,  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered 


Governing  the   Health    Department.  17 

to  establish  and  enforce  special  or  general  quarantine  regulations 
within  the  limits  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  whenever  in  his  judg- 
ment the  sanitary  interest  of  the  city  demand  the  same. 

Sec.  2.  Quarantine  regulations  are  hereby  defined  to  apply  as 
follows  :  First,  to  all  passengers  and  their  baggage.  Second,  to 
passengers  or  baggage  respectively.  Third,  to  freight  of  any  one 
kind  or  character,  or  different  varieties  of  freight  differing  in 
kind,  (character,  substance  or  material ;  the  extent  of  the  inhibi- 
tion or  prohibition  upon  passengers  or  freight  coming  from  any 
part  of  the  United  States  into  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  shall  be  de- 
termined by  the  Health  Commissioner  and  approved  by  the  Board 
of  Health,  and  when  so  determined  and  approved  it  shall  be  made 
of  record  in  the  proceedings  of  the  Board. 

Sec.  3.  Whenever  the  Health  Commissioner  shall  be  in  pos- 
session of  reliable  and  satisfactory  information  that  any  malignant, 
infectious  or  contagious  disease  is  epidemic  in  any  portion  of  the 
country  with  which  the  City  of  St.  Louis  has  communication,  he 
may  estjiblish  and  enforce  quarantine  regulations  against  such 
portion  of  the  country,  and  he  may  determine  and  regulate  to 
what  extent,  in  what  manner  and  by  whom  any  communication  or 
business  transactions  may  be  had  with  such  portion,  either  by  the 
citizens  of  such  portion  of  the  country  or  of  the  City  of  St. 
Louis,  and  he  shall  establish  such  stringent  and  necessary  rules 
and  regulations  as  may  be  required  to  prevent  the  introduction  or 
spread  of  such  disease ;  and  to  that  end  he  is  hereby  authorized 
to  employ  such  person  as  he  may  deem  necessary  and  all  the  ac- 
tions of  the  Health  Commissioner  under  the  provisions  of  this 
section  must  be  approved  by  and  recorded  in  the  proceedings  of 
the  Board  of  Health,  otherwise  the  Health  Commissioner  shall 
have  no  power  to  act  in  the  premises. 

Sec.  4.  Whenever  the  Health  Commissioner  shall  declare 
that  any  malignant,  infectious  or  contagious  disease  is  prevalent 
in  an  epidemical  form  in  any  portion  of  the  country,  and  the  same 
is  approved  by  the  Board  of  Health,  he  shall  immediately,  or  as 
soon  thereafter  as  possible,  notify  in  writing  every  express  com- 
pany, transfer  company,  teamster,  steamboat  company,  or  water 
craft  and  railroad  coippany  doing  business  at  the  wharf,  or  in  the 
City  of  St.  Louis,  and  engaged  in  the  transportation  of  freight 
and  passengers  to  or  from  the  City  of  St.  Louis  to  any  portion  of 
such  country  through  their  representatives  or  principal  officers,  or 
masters,  owners,  managers,  conductors,  teamsters,  or  directors, 
that  quarantine  regulations  have  been  established  and  will  be 
rigidly  enforced  against  such  portion  of  the  country,  stating  the 
method  and  the  conditions  by  and  upon  which  they  may  transmit 
or  carry  passengers  or  freight  to  or  from  the  City  of  St.  Louis ; 
and  also  the  kind  or  character  of  freight  that  is  prohibited  from 

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18  '  Laws  and    Ordinances 

entering  the  city,  and  all  other  regulations  that  may  have  been 
established  by  the  Health  Commissioner  and  approved  by  the 
Board  of  Health  in  relation  to  the  subject  matter.  Every  officer, 
master,  manager,  owner,  director,  conductor  or  teamster  of  any 
express  company,  transfer  company,  team,  steamboat  company  or 
other  water  craft  and  railroad  company  after  having  received  such 
notice,  failing  or  refusing  in  whole  or  in  part  to  comply  with  the 
restrictions  and  conditions  of  the  quarantine  regulations  as  estab- 
lished by  the  Health  Commissioner  and  approved  by  the  Board  of 
Health,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  con- 
viction thereof  before  either  of  the  Police  Justices  of  the  City  of 
St.  Louis,  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  fifty  nor  more  than 
^\e  hundred  dollars,  to  be  collected  and  paid  as  other  fines  and 
penalties  for  misdemeanors  are  now  provided  for  by  law. 

Sec,  5.  No  steamboat  or  other  water-craft,  or  railroad  train, 
consisting  of  locomotive  and  one  car  or  more,  coming  from  any 
portion  of  the  country  infected  with  any  malignant,  infectious  or 
contagious  disease  in  an  epidemical  form,  and  bound  for  the  City 
of  St.  Louis,  shall  land  at  the  wharf  or  discharge  its  freight  or 
passengers  within  the  limits  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  without  first 
having  obtained  a  permit  to  do  so  from  the  Health  Commissioner, 
or  some  other  officer  designated  by  him  ;  and  any  captain,  owner 
or  master  or  conductor  of  any  steamboat  or  other  water-craft  or 
railroad  train  landing  at  the  wharf  or  discharging  freight  or  pas- 
sengers within  the  City  of  St.  Louis  without  first  having  obtained 
a  permit  as  heretofore  designated,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof  before  either  of  the 
Police  Justices  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum 
not  less  than  fifty  nor  more  than  ^yq  hundred  dollars,  to  be  col- 
lected and  paid  as  all  other  fines  for  misdemeanors  are  now  pro- 
vided for  by  law. 

Sec.  6.  All  emigrants,  passengers  or  others  recently  from 
shipboard  or  elsewhere,  and  all  sick,  diseased  or  unclean  persons, 
with  their  baggage  and  stores,  may,  on  their  arrival  in  the  City 
of  St.  Louis,  be  sent  to  the  quarantine  station  provided  by  the 
city  for  such  purposes,  whenever  in  the  opinion  of  the  Health 
Commissioner  the  same  is  deemed  necessaij^by  him,  and  approved 
by  the  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  7.  Whenever  an  order  of  the  Health  Commissioner  in 
relation  to  the  quarantine  regulations  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  is 
approved  by  the  Board  of  Health,  a  cojjy  of  the  same  shall  be 
made  out  and  attested  by  the  clerk  and  presiding  officer  thereof, 
and  transmitted  to  the  Board  of  Police  Commissioners,  who  shall 
enter  the  same  of  record  upon  the  minutes  of  the  Board,  and  shall 
cause  a  copy  of  the  same  to  be  transmitted  to  the  commanding 
officer  of  each  police  district  and  sub-district,  and  such  command- 


Governing  the  Health  JDej^artmeni,  19 

ing  officer  shall  cause  said  order  to  be  read  at  least  twice  to  the 
officers  and  patrolmen  of  the  force  at  each  district ,  and  the 
Board  of  Police  Commissioners  are  further  directed  to  instruct  the 
officers  of  the  force  to  aid  and  assist  the  Health  Commissioner,  or 
any  officer  or  employe  designated  by  him  in  the  enforcement  of 
the  quarantine  regulations  whenever  requested  to  do  so. 

Sec.  8.  Any  person  or  persons  failing  or  refusing  to  comply 
with  the  quarantine  regulations  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  as 
established  by  the  Health  Commissioner  and  approved  by  the 
Board  of  Health,  or  any  person  or  persons  resisting  by  force  or 
otherwise  the  enforcement  of  the  quarantine  regulations  in  the 
City  of  St.  Louis,  established  and  approved  as  aforesaid,  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof, 
before  either  of  the  Police  Justices  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  shall 
be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  ^nq  hundred 
dollars  for  each  oifense. 

Sec.  9.  The  grounds  purchased  by  the  City  of  St.  Louis  from 
Augustus  Langkopt  by  deed  bearing  date  July  seventh,  eighteen 
hundred  and  fifty-four,  are  hereby  established  as  a  permanent 
quarantine  station  for  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  and  there  shall  be 
established  and  maintained  at  said  station  a  permanent  hospital 
for  the  reception  and  accommodation  of  such  persons,  emigrants 
or  others  as  may  be  placed  therein  by  proper  authority. 

Sec.  10.  Article  six  of  chap  tar  twelve  of  the  lievised  Ordin- 
ances of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  31,  1871,  is 
hereby  repealed. 

Approved  January  30,  1879. 

[10,998.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  in  relation  to  the  Health  Department, 
authorizing  the  Health  Commissioner  to  remove  all  malignant,  in- 
fectious or  contagious  cases  of  disease  from  all  hotels,  boarding- 
houses,  tenement  houses,  and  in  certain  cases  from  private  resi- 
dences. 

Whereas^  clause  six  of  section  twenty-six  of  article  three  of  the 
Charter  provides  that  the  Mayor  and  Assembly  shall  have  power 
to  establish  and  enforce  quarantine  law  and  regulations  to  prevent 
the  introduction  and  spread  of  contagious  diseases,  to  establish 
and  regulate  hospitals,  and  to  secure  the  general  health  of  the  in- 
habitants by  any  measures  necessary;  therefore. 

Be  it  ordained  hy^    the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the   City  of  St. 
Louis,  as  follows: 

Section  1.  Whenever  the  Health  Commissioner  shall  become 
apprised  or" informed  that  any  person  or  persons  residing  in  any 


20  Laws   and    Ordinances 

hotel,  boarding-house,  or  tenement  house  within  the  limits  of  the 
City  of  St.  Louis  are  suffering  from  any  malignant,  infectious  or 
contagious  disease  which  in  his  opinion  or  the  opinion  of  any  med- 
ical officer  of  the  Health  Department  may  endanger  the  lives  of  the 
citizens,  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  make  or  cause  to  be  made  an  ex- 
amination of  the  said  person  or  persons,  and  the  disease  they  are 
suffering  from  or  afflicted  with,  and  from  and  after  such  examina- 
tion, if  he  shall  deem  the  same  necessary,  he  shall  cause  said  per- 
son or  persons  to  be  removed  from  the  said  hotel,  boarding-house, 
or  tenement  house  to  the  hospital  provided  by  the  city  for  the 
treatment  of  all  such  diseases. 

Sec.  2.  Whenever  the  Health  Commissioner  shall  become  ap- 
prised or  informed  that  any  person  or  persons  residing  in  any 
private  residence,  house  or  dwelling  within  the  limits  of  the  City 
of  St,  Louis  are  suffering  from  any  malignant,  infectious  or  con- 
tageous  disease,  which  in  his  opinion,  or  the  opinion  of  any  medi- 
cal officer  of  the  Health  Department  may  endanger  the  lives  of 
citizens,  and  which  from  the  surroundings  of  the  premises,  the  size 
of  the  house,  and  the  number  of  persons  residing  therein,  would 
make  it  impossible  to  isolate  the  said  person  or  persons  so  afflicted 
from  all  connection  or  contact  with  other  persons  residing  in  the 
same  house  (except  the  nurses)  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  make  or 
cause  to  be  made,  an  examination  of  the  premises  and  the  surround- 
ings, and  also  an  examination  by  a  medical  officer  of  the  Health 
Department  of  the  said  person  or  persons,  and  the  disease  they 
are  suffering  from  or  afflicted  with,  and  from  and  after  such 
examination  o^  the  premises  and  the  person  or  persons,  if  he  shall 
deem  the  same  necessary,  he  shall  cause  said  person  or  persons  to  be 
removed  from  said  private  residence,  house  or  dwelling,  to  the  hos- 
pital provided  by  the  city  for  the  treatment  of  all  such  diseases,  pro- 
vided that  the  Health  Commissioner  shall  permit  one  member  of 
the  family  of  the  sick  person  to  accompany  the  sick  person  to  the 
hospital,  there  to  remain  as  a  nurse  until  such  sick  person  is  dis- 
charged from  the  hospital. 

Sec.  3.  Whenever  an}^  residence  or  portion  of  the  city  to  the 
extent  of  one  residence,  or  one  or  more  blocks  or  squares  of  ground 
shall  in  the  opinion  of  the  Health  Commissioner  be  infected,  with 
any  malignant  or  infectious  or  contageous  disease  he  shall  have 
the  power,  by  and  with  the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Health,  to 
cause  the  said  residence,  block  or  blocks  or  squares  of  ground  to 
be  vacated  by  the  residents  or  inhabitants  thereof,  for  the  purpose 
of  disinfecting  and  fumigating  the  same,  or  if  this  is  not  deemed 
expedient  or  judicious  by  the  Health  Commissioner  he  shall  have 
the  power  and  authority  to  close  up  the  street  or  streets  in  front  of 
and  surrounding  the  said  residence,  block  or  blocks  or  squares  of 
ground,  and  to  prohibit  the  residents  and  inhabitants  of  the  said 


Governing  the  Health   Department.  21 

residence,  block  or  blocks  or  squares  of  ground  from  passing  in 
or  out,  to  or  from  said  premises,  except  under  such  rules  and  regu-  \ 
lations  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  Health  Commissioner  and  ap- 
proved by  the  Board  of  Health,  and  to  continue  and  remain  so 
until  the  Health  Commissioner  or  the  Board  of  Health  shall  order 
the  restrictions  removed. 

Sec.  4.  The  keepers  of  all  hotels  and  boarding-houses,  and 
the  agents  and  owners  of  all  tenement-houses,  or  private  resi- 
dences or  dwelling-houses,  having  any  person  or  persons  in  their 
hotels,  boarding-houses,  tenement-houses,  or  private  residence  or 
dwelling-houses  suffering  from  or  afflicted  with  any  malignant, 
infectious  or  contagious  disease,  after  they  shall  have  become 
acquainted  with  the  fact,  or  are  apprised  of  the  same,  shall  imme- 
diately notify  the  Health  Commissioner  at  his  office,  in  the  City 
Hall,  stating  the  name  of  the  person  or  persons  so  afflicted,  their 
age  and  residence  or  location,  and  such  other  facts  or  information 
as  they  may  be  in  possession  of.  Any  such  keeper,  owner  or 
clerk  of  any  hotel  or  boarding-house,  or  any  such  agent  or  owner 
of  any  tenement-house,  private  residence  or  dwelling-house,  fail- 
ing to  notify  the  Health  Commissioner  of  any  person  or  persons 
being  afflicted  with  any  malignant,  contagious  or  infectious  dis- 
ease, after  having  become  aware,  apprised  or  informed  of  the 
same,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  con- 
viction thereof,  before  either  of  the  Police  Justices  of  the  City  of 
St.  Louis,  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  twenty  nor  more 
than  one  hundred  dollars,  to  be  collected  and  paid  as  other  fines 
for  misdemeanors  now  provided  for  by  law. 

Sec.  5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Police  Department  of  the 
City  of  St.  Louis  to  notify  the  Health  Commissioner  of  the  exist- 
ence of  any  malignant,  infectious  or  contagious  disease,  whenever 
or  wherever  they,  in  their  judgment,  consider  or  believe  the  same 
to  exist,  and  also  to  assist  the  Health  Commissioner  or  his  officers 
or  employes,  whenever  called  upon  to  do  so,  while  in  the  dis- 
charge of  their  duties  by  virtue  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance. 
Sec.  6.  Any  person  or  persons  violating  any  of  the  provisions 
of  this  ordinance,  or  interfering  with,  or  hindering,  or  obstructing 
the  Health  Commissioner  or  his  officers  or  employes,  in  the  exer- 
cise of  their  authority  or  duties  as  provided  by  this  ordinance,  shall 
be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof 
before  either  of  the  Police  Justices  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  shall 
be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  twenty  nor  more  than  one  hun- 
dred dollars,  to  be  collected  and  paid  as  other  fines  for  misde- 
meanors are  now  provided  for  by  law. 
Approved  March  3,  1879. 


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[10,H15.] 

AN  ORDIiVACE  in  relation  to  the  Health  Department  in  rela- 
tion to  physicians  practicing  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis  giving  notice 
of  contagious  diseases. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the   City  of  St, 
Louis,  as  follows  : 

Section  1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  and  every  practicing 
physician  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  :  First,  To  report  to. the  Health 
Commissioner,  or  nearest  police  station,  every  case  of  small-pox 
or  contagious  disease  he  may  be  called  on  to  attend  within  limits 
of  the  city  or  within  ten  miles  thereof,  within  twelve  hours  after 
he  shall  have  examined  the  patient,  with  the  number  of  the  house, 
the  name  of  the  occupant  and  the  street.  Second,  Whenever  re- 
quired by  the  Health  Commissioner  to  report  to  him  at  such 
times  and  in  such  forms  as  he  may  prescribe  the  number  of  per- 
sons attacked  with  any  pestilential,  contagious  or  infectious 
disease,  attended  by  such  physicians,  within  twelve  hours  next 
preceding,  and  the  number  of  persons  attended  by  such  physician 
who  shall  have  died  within  twelve  hours  next  preceding  such  re- 
port of  any  pestilential,  contagious  or  infectious  disease. 

Sec.  2.  Whenever  any  physician  shall  report  to  the  Health 
Commissioner  any  case  of  small-pox  or  contagious  disease  in  any 
dwelling  or  building  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  the  Health  Com- 
missioner shall  have  the  power,  whenever  in  his  opinion  it  is 
necessary,  to  cause  to  be  placed  on  the  outside  of  any  building  or 
dwelling  or  door  of  any  room  a  printed  placard  giving  notice  of 
the  existence  of  such  contagious  disease.  Any  person  who  shall 
remove  such  placard  placed  by  order  of  the  Health  Commission- 
er shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction 
be  fined  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than'  twenty-five  dollars. 

Sec.  3.  Any  practicing  physician  who  shall  neglect  or  refuse 
to  perform  the  duties  required  of  him  by  this  ordinance  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  shall  be 
fined  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars. 

Sec.  4.  The  parents  or  guardians  *of  children  attending  any 
private  or  public  school  who  shall  permit  them  to  attend  school 
after  it  becomes  known  to  the  said  parents  or  guardians  that  any 
of  their  family  are  infected  with  any  infectious  or  contagious 
disease  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  con- 
viction thereof  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  of  not  less  than  three  nor 
more  than  ten  dollars. 

Sec.  5.  Any  principal  or  teacher  of  any  private  or  public 
school  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  having  official  or  authentic  infor- 
mation of  the  existence  of  any  infectious  or  contagious  disease  in 


Governing  the  Health  Department.  23 

the  family  of  any  pupil  attending  said  school  shall  immediately 
cause  the  removal  of  said  pupil  from  said  school,  and  until  he  (or 
she)  shall  have  undoubted  proof  of  the  premises  where  the  family 
reside  being  disinfected  and  the  disease  eradicated.  Any  failure 
on  the  part  of  any  principal  or  teacher  complying  with  the  pro- 
visions of  this  ordinance  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor, 
and  upon  conviction  thereof  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  three 
nor  more  than  ten  dollars. 

Approved  February  19,  187^. 

[10,321.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  in  relation  to  the  sale  of  poisons  and  to 
repeal  article  three,  chapter  twelve,  of  the  Revised  Ordinances  of 
the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  thirty-first,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  seventy-one,  and  also  to  repeal  ordinance  numbered 
eight  thousand  and  seventy-seven,  entitled  **  an  ordinance  in  rela- 
tion to  the  sale  of  poisons,"  approved  July  eleventh,  eighteen 
hundred  and  seventy-two. 

Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the   City  of  St. 
Louis,  as  follows  : 

Section  1.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  to  sell  any 
drugs,  medicines,  chemicals  or  any  other  article  which  may  prove 
fatal  or  injurious  when  taken  internally  or  used  externally  by 
any  person  if  taken  in  such  quantities  that  it  is  possible  for  any 
person  to  take  such  medicine,  drug  or  other  article  by  mistake 
without  discovering  such  rnistake  unless  the  same  shall  be  plainly 
labeled  *'  poison,"  and  with  the  name  of  the  article  in  addition  to 
the  word  "  poison,"  such  label  shall  contain  a  skull  and  cross- 
bones,  so  as  to  indicate  to  any  person  handling  such  article  that  it 
is  poisonous,  and  in  no  case  shall  any  poisonous  article  be  sold  to 
a  minor  or  other  irresponsible  person. 

Sec.  2.  No  person  shall  be  permitted  to  sell  any  drug,  medi- 
cine or  other  article  which  is  known  by  the  medical  profession  to 
produce  abortions  or  that  may  have  a  tendency  to  destroy  the 
human  foetus. 

Sec.  3.  The  befor^  named  sections  shall  not  apply  to  pre- 
scriptions of  graduates  of  any  medical  school  that  have  registered 
at  the  office  of  the  Board  of  Health ;  a  list  of  the  names  of  the 
resident  physicians  of  the  city  shall  be  furnished  any  druggist  or 
apothecary  within  the  city  limits,  on  application  to  the  Board  of 
Health. 

Sec.  4.  No  apothecary,  druggist  or  other  person  within  this 
city  shall  sell  or  permit  to  be  sold  at  retail  or  wholesale,  except 
to  dealers  in  such  articles,   any  poisonous  drug  or  substance. 


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except  the  same  shall  have  been  prescribed  or  ordered  by  a  phy- 
sician for  the  use  of  the  sick,  or  the  person  desiring  to  obtain  the 
same  shall  have  first  been  furnished  with  a  written  permit  from 
the  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  5.  It  shall. be  the  duty  of  every  physician  within  the 
city,  prescribing  or  ordering  for  external  use  any  poisonous  drug 
or  substance,  to  state  in  his  prescriptions  or  orders  in  plain  writ- 
ing ''  for  e?:ternal  use,"  and  no  apothecary  or  druggist  shall  de- 
liver any  article  thus  ordered  without  the  same  being  properly 
labeled  with  the  words  *'  for  external  use." 

Sec.  6.  Any  apothecary,  druggist  or  other  person  violating 
the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  mis- 
demeanor, and  upon  conviction  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not 
less  than  fifty  nor  more  than  $300  for  each  and  every  off'ense,  to 
be  recovered  for  the  use  of  the  city  of  St.  Louis  before  any  court 
or  oflicer  having  competent  jurisdiction. 

Sec.  7.  Article  3,  chapter  13,  of  the  Revised  Ordinances  of 
the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  thirty-first,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  seventy-one,  and  ordinance  numbered  eight  thousand 
and  seventy-seven,  entitled  "An  ordinance  in  relation  to  the  sale, 
of  poisons,"  approved  July  eleventh,  eighteen  hundred  and 
seventy-two  are  hereby  repealed. 

Approved  July  7,  1877. 

[10,326.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  in  relation  to  vital  statistics,  and  to  repeal 
article  4,  chapter  12,  of  the  Revised  Ordinances  of  the  City  of  St. 
Louis,  approved  March  31,  1871. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  St,  Louis, 
as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  provide  for  the 
registration  of  all  births,  deaths  and  marriages  occurring  within 
the  city  of  St.  Louis,  and  for  that  purpose  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
every  physician  and  midwife  to  report  weekly  to  the  Health  Com- 
missioner, at  or  before  the  hour  of  four  o'clock  in  the  afternoon 
of  Saturday  of  each  and  every  week,  in  accordance  with  printed 
forms  to  be  furnished  by  said  Health  Commissioner,  a  statement 
of  the  sex  and  date  of  birth  of  every  child  born  in  this  city  where 
they  have  attended  the  birth  of  such  child  ;  and  in  case  no  physi- 
cian or  midwife  attended  the  birth  of  any  child  born  in  this  city, 
then,  and  in  that  case,  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  father  or 
mother  to  make  such  report  to  the  Health  Commissioner. 

Sec.  2.  All  persons  authorized  by  law  to  solemnize  marriages 
shall  report  every  marriage  solemnized  by  them  within  the  limits 


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of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  to  the  Health  Commissioner,  within  ten 
days  from  the  time  said  marriage  has  been  solemnized. 

Sec.  3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  physician  and  person 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis  to 
report  to  the  Health  Commissioner  the  death  of  any  person  under 
their  care  or  treatment,  when  the  person  died,  and  with  such  par- 
ticulars as  the  Health  Commissioner  may  prescribe ;  and  it  shall 
also  be  the  duty  of  the  Coroner  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  to  make 
a  weekly  report  to  the  Health  Commissioner  of  all  inquests  and 
all  deaths  within  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  coming  within  his  official 
knowledge. 

Sec.  4.  Every  person  whose  duty  it  is  to  make  any  of  the 
reports  prescribed  by  this  ordinance  shall  make  the  same  within 
the  time  as  prescribed,  and  any  person  who  shall  fliil  to  make  such 
report,  or  to  comply  with  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance, 
shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction 
thereof  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  one  hun- 
dred dollars,  to  be  recovered  as  in  other  cases  of  misdemeanor 
before  any  court  having  competent  jurisdiction. 

Sec.  5.  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  weekly  transmit  to  the 
Kecorder  of  Deeds  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  a  transcript  copy  of 
all  births  and  marriages  on  file  in  his  office,  having  occurred  during 
the  week  last  past,  and  the  same  shall  be  recorded  in  the  office  of 
the  Recorder  of  Deeds  at  the  expense  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis, 
and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Recorder  of  Deeds  to  compare  the 
same  with  the  reports  as  provided  by  the  act  of  the  Legislature 
relating  thereto. 

Sbc.  6.  Article  four,  chapter  twelve  of  the  Revised  Ordinances 
of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  31,  1871,  is  hereby  re- 
pealed. 

Approved  July  9,  1877. 

[10,S29.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  to  provide  for  the  keeping  of  mprtuary 
records,  establishing  rules  and  regulations  governing  Sextons  and 
Cemeteries,  and  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  sections  10,  11,  12 
and  13  of  article  12  of  the  Charter  of  St.  Louis,  relating  to  the 
Health  Department,  and  to  repeal  article  7,  chapter  12  of  the 
Revised  Ordinances  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis.  Approved  March 
31,  1871. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  oj  the  City  of  8t.  Louis, 
as  follows  : 

Section  1.  Every  physician  who  may  practice  medicine  in 
the  City  of  St.  Louis  shall,  when  a  patient  dies  under  his  care, 


26  Laws   and   Ordinances 

make  two  certificates,  stating  the  name,  age,  sex,  color  and 
place  of  birth,  and  exact  locality  and  date  of  death,  together 
with  the  name  of  the  disease  of  which  said  person  died,  one  of 
which  he  shall,  without  delay,  deposit  in  the  office  of  the  Health 
Commissioner,  who  shall  register  and  file  the  same  in  his  office, 
and  the  other  he  shall  give  to  the  undertaker  of  the  funeral,  to  be 
delivered  by  him  to  the  person  who  has  control  of  the  graveyard 
in  which  the  body  is  buried.  And  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any 
person  who  may  have  charge  or  control  of  any  graveyard  or 
cemetery  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  to  receive  said  certificates  or 
allow  any  person  to  be  buried  in  any  graveyard  or  cemetery  under 
their  control  unless  said  certificates  have  first  been  countersigned 
by  the  Health  Commissioner  or  his  clerk.  Aud  if  any  physician 
or  undertaker  refuse  or  omit  to  do  as  aforesaid,  he  shall  forfeit 
and  pay  five  dollars  to  the  use  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  to  be 
recovered  as  provided  for  in  section  3  of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  2.  All  overseers,  sextons  or  other  persons  who  may 
have  control  over  public  graveyards  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  shall 
make  a  weekly  report  to  the  Health  Commissioner  of  all  inter- 
ments during  the  week  in  the  graveyard  whereof  they  are  such 
overseer  or  sexton,  respectively.  Said  report  shall  specify  the 
names  and  ages  of  the  persons  interred,  sex,  color  and  place  of 
birth,  and  exact  lacality  and  date  of  death,  and  also  the  diseases 
of  which  said  persons  died,  and  the  name  and  residence  of  phy- 
sician who  signed  the'  certificate. 

Sec.  3.  If  any  overseer,  sexton,  or  other  person  having  con- 
trol of  a  graveyard,  shall  permit  any  person  to  be  interred  in  said 
graveyard  without  a  certificate,  stating  the  name,  age,  sex,  color, 
place  of  birth,  place  and  date  of  death,  together  with  the  disease 
of  which  said  person  died,  signed  by  the  physician  who  attended 
such  person  and  countersigned  by  the  Health  Commissioner  or  his 
clerk,  he  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  sum  not  less  than  five  no  more 
than  twenty  dollars,  to  be  recorered  as  in  other  cases  of  misde- 
meanor before  any  court  or  officer  having  competent  jurisdiction. 

Sec.  4.  If  any  overseer,  sexton,  or  other  person,  charged 
with  the  performance  of  such  duty,  fail  or  neglect  to  make  to  the 
Health  Commissioner  such  report  of  weekly  interments,  he  shall 
forfeit  and  pay  not  less  than  twenty  dollars  for  every  such  failure, 
to  be  recovered  in  like  manner  as  provided  in  the  last  preceding 
section. 

Sec.  5.  The  sextons  of  the  several  cemeteries  shall  deliver  to 
the  Health  Commissioner  at  his  office,  their  weekly  reports  as 
provided  for  in  section  2  of  this  ordinance,  at  or  before  the  hour 
of  4  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of  Saturday  of  each  and  every  week, 
and  any  sexton  failing  or  refusing  so  to  do  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a 


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fine  ot  ten  dollars  for  each  such  failure  or  refusal,  to  be  recovered 
as  provided  for  in  section  3  of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  6.  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  furnish  each  overseer 
or  sexton  of  any  graveyard  with  a  blank  book,  with  appropriate 
columns  to  enter  the  facts  and  records  required  by  this  ordinance 
to  be  recorded  ;  and  such  overseer  or  sexton  shall  enter  in  such 
books  all  the  certificates  received  from  any  undertaker  or  physi- 
cian ;  such  books  shall  be,  and  always  remain,  the  property  of  the 
city  of  St.  Louis. 

Sec.  7.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  overseers,  sextons,  or 
other  persons  who  may  have  control  over  the  public  graveyards 
of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  to  include  in  their  weekly  report  to  the 
Health  Commissioner,  as  provided  for  in  section  two  of  this  ordi- 
nance, the  name  and  place  of  residence  of  each  physician  from 
whom  has  been  received  a  cer4;ificate  on  which  any  person  has 
been  interred  in  the  graveyards  under  their  charge,  and  the  num- 
ber of  certificates  given  by  each  and  every  physician,  and  for 
whom  given,  and  any  overseer,  sexton  or  other  person  having 
charge  of  a  public  graveyard,  failing  or  refusing  to  comply  with 
the  provisions  of  this  section,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine  of  ten 
dollars  for  every  such  failure  or  refusal,  to  be  recovered  as  pro- 
vided for  in  section  three  of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  8.  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  cause  to  be  printed  a 
sufficient  number  of  blank  certificates,  setting  forth  in  suitable 
columns  the  facts  required,  as  prescribed  in  section  one  of  this 
ordinance,  which  certificates  shall  be  kept  in  the  office  of  Health 
Commissioner,  and  shall  be  delivered  to  registered  physicians  in 
person  only,  and  said  physicians'  names  shall  be  inscribed  on  the 
back  of  each  certificate  so  delivered,  and  it  shall  not  be  lawful 
for  any  physician  to  issue  or  use  any  other  form  of  certificate  for 
interment  except  such  form  as  shall  be  prescribed  and  issued  by 
the  Health  Commissioner. 

Sec.  9.  When  the  removal  of  any  dead  person  beyond  the 
city  limits  is  desired,  a  permit  therefor  shall  first  be  obtained  from 
the  Health  Commissioner,  who  shall  issue  said  permit  upon  the 
certificate  of  the  physician  under  whose  care  the  person  died. 

Sec.  10.  Article  7,  chapter  12,  of  the  Revised  Ordinances  of 
the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  31,  1871,  is  hereby  re- 
pealed. 

Approved  July  17,  1877. 

[10,386.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  in  relation  to  the  Health  Department,  and  to 
regulate  the  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery  and  midwifery  in  the 
City  of  St.  Louis,  and  to  regulate  the  issue  of  burial  certificates. 


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Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis, 

as  follows  : 

Section  1.  It  shall  hereafter  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to 
practice  medicine  or  surgery  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis  who  shall  not 
first  have  received  the  degree  of  doctor  of  medicine  from  some 
medical  college  or  university  duly  established  under  and  by  virtue 
of  the  laws  of  the  state  or  country  in  which  the  same  is  situated ; 
Provided,  however,  that  this  section  shall  not  apply  to  any  person 
who  may  now  be  authorized  to  practice  medicine  or  surgery  by 
virtue  of  existing  laws  of  the  state  in  relation  thereto. 

Sec.  2.  Every  person  who  shall  hereafter  engage  in  the  practice 
of  medicine  or  surgery  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  shall  before  en- 
tering upon  such  practice  file  a  copy  of  his  or  her  diploma  in  the 
oflSce  of  the  Health  Commissioner,  which  shall  be  subscribed  and 
sworn  to  by  the  person  filing  the  sa;me,  and  thereupon,  the  Health 
Commissioner,  or  his  clerk,  shall  enter  the  name  of  such  person, 
the  date  of  filing  the  said  copy,  the  date  of  his  or  her  diploma  and 
the  name  and  location  of  the  school  or  university  granting  such 
diploma,  in  a  book  to  be  kept  by  the  Health  Commissioner  for 
that  purpose,  and  shall  require  the  person  filing  such  copy  to  sub- 
scribe his  or  her  name  in  said  book. 

Sec.  3.  Ever}^  person  now  practicing  medicine  or  surgery  in 
this  city,  or  who  shall  commence  the  practice  of  medicine  or 
surgery  in  this  city  before  the  passage  of  this  ordinance,  shall 
register  his  or  her  name  in  the  book  described  in  the  preceding 
section  in  the  office  of  the  Health  Commissioner,  and  shall  exhibit 
his  or  her  diploma  to  the  Health  Commissioner  for  inspection  at 
the  time  of  such  registration,  but  shall  not  be  required  to  file  any 
copy  of  the  same,  and  thereupon  the  Health  Commissioner  shall 
enter  in  said  book  all  the  facts  as  required  in  the  preceding  sec- 
tion. 

Sec.  4.  Whenever  the  Health  Commissioner  has  reason  to  be- 
lieve that  the  diploma  shown,  or  claimed  to  be  in  the  possession  of 
the  person  presenting  the  same,  or  the  copy  thereof  has  been  pur- 
chased, or  has  not  been  issued  to  the  person  presenting  the  same, 
or  that  the  medical  school  or  university  purporting  to  have  issued 
the  same,  is  not  a  medical  school  or  university  in  good  standing,  he 
shall  refuse  to  allow  the  person  presenting  the  diploma  or  the 
copy  thereof  to  register,  but  shall  forthwith  refer  the  matter  with 
all  the  facts  in  the  case,  to  the  Board  of  Health,  who,  after  a 
hearing,  shall  decide  whether  said  person  shall  be  allowed  to 
register,  and  if  the  Board  of  Health  shall  so  decide,  it  shall 
direct  the  Health  Commissioner  to  allow  said  person  to  register, 
but  if  in  the  opinion  of  the  Board  of  Health  said  person  should 
not  1)0  allowed  to  register,  the  Health  Commissioner  shall  not 
permit  said  person  to  register. 


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Sec.  5.  Every  person  who  shall  practice  or  attetapt  to  prac- 
tice medicine  or  surgery  in  this  city  without  first  having  complied 
with  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  shall  be  fined  not  less  than 
twenty-five  dollars  nor  more  than  five  hundred  dollars. 

Sec.  6.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  the  Health  Commissioner  or 
his  clerk  to  sign  any  burial  certificate  signed  by  any  other  than  a 
registered  physician. 

Sec.  7.  If  any  overseer,  sexton  or  other  person  having  control 
of  a  graveyard,  shall  permit  any  person  to  be  interred  in  said 
graveyard  without  a  certificate  signed  by  a  registered  physician 
and  countersigned  by  the  Health  Commissioner,  or  his  clerk,  he 
shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  shall 
be  fined  not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars  nor  more  than  five  hun- 
dred dollars,  to  be  recovered  as  in  other  cases  of  misdemeanor, 
before  any  court  or  oflicer  having  competent  jurisdiction. 

Sec.  8.  Hereafter  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  to 
practice  midwifery,  unless  such  person  shall  first  register  her 
name  and  place  of  abode,  in  a  book  in  the  office  of  the 
Health  Commissioner,  kept  for  that  purpose,  but  no  person 
shall  be  allowed  to  register  as  a  midwife,  who  .shall  not  first 
either  file  a  diploma  from  some  school  of  midwifery  in  good 
standing,  or  a  certificate  signed  by  at  least  two  registered  phy- 
sicians, which  certificate  shall  state  that  the  party  named  in 
the  certificate,  is  in  their  opinion  qualified  to  practice  midwifery, 
and  any  person  who  shall  practice  or  attempt  to  practice  mid- 
wifery without  first  having  complied  with  the  provisions  of  this 
ordinance  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  misdemeanor,  and  upon  con- 
viction shall  be  fined  not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars  nor  more 
than  fifty  dollars. 

Sec.  9.  Nothing  in  this  ordinance  shall  be  so  construed  as 
to  permit  any  druggist  to  engage  in  the  practice  of  medicine  or 
surgery,  without  having  first  filed  with  the  Health  Commissioner  a 
diploma,  or  a  certified  copy  thereof,  in  accordance  with  the  pro- 
visions of  the  first  three  sections  of  this  ordinance. 

Approved  October  20,  1877. 

[10,990.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  regulating  cemeteries  and  the  interment  of 
the  dead  within  the  limits  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  /St.  Louis, 
as  follows  : 

Section  1.  The  following  named  cemeteries,  as  now  estab- 
lished within  the  limits  of  the  city,  are  hereby   recognized  and 


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authorized  as  legal  and  proper  places  for  the  interment  of  persons 
who  may  die  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  or  who  may  be  brought  to 
the  city  for  burial,  namely :  First,  Bellefontaine  Cemetery ; 
second,  Old  Picker's,  or  Holy  Ghost  Cemetery;  third,  Rock 
Spring  Cemetery  ;  fourth,  Wesleyan  Cemetery  ;  fifth.  The  Western 
alias  Western  Evangelical  Lutheran  Cemetery;  sixth (  Bremen- 
Saxon  Cemetery;  seventh.  Calvary  Cemetery;  eighth,  Holy 
Trinity  Cemetery;  ninth,  St.  Paul's  Evangelical  Cemetery;  tenth, 
St.  Peter's  and  Paul's  Cemetery;  eleventh,  Episcopal  Ceme- 
tery ;  twelfth.  Public  Cemetery  at  City  Poor  House  ;  thirteenth, 
St.  Matthews's  Cemetery ;  and  all  other  cemeteries  established 
and  now  in  use  within  the  present  city  limits,  of  not  less  than  two 
acres  in  extent. 

Sec.  2.  None  of  the  above  named  cemeteries,  or  any  other 
that  may  hereafter  be  established  bylaw,  shall  extend  their  limits, 
unless  permission  to  do  so  has  been  authorized  by  ordinance. 

Sec.  3.  From  and  after  the  passage  of  this  ordinance,  it  shall 
not  be  lawful  for  any  person  or  persons  to  lay  out  or  establish  a 
public  or  private  burying  ground  within  the  limits  of  the  City  of 
St.  Louis,  unless  the  authority  to  do  so  shall  have  first  been 
granted  by  ordinance. 

Sec.  4.     It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  or  persons  to 
bury  the  body  of  any  deceased  person  anywhere  within  the  limits 
of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  except  in  a  cemetery  duly  authorized 
and  recognized  as  a  public  or  private  burying  ground,  and  within 
the  meaning  of  and  as  provided  for  by  this  ordinance,  except  by 
special  permission  granted  by  the  Health  Commissioner.     Any 
person  violating  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  upon  convic- 
tion be  fined  not  less  than  one  hundred  dollars,  to  be  recovered 
for  the  use  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  as  in  other  cases  of  misde- 
meanor, before  any  court  or  officer  having  competent  jurisdiction. 
Sec.  5.     Any  owner  or  owners,  or  his,  or  their  agents,  or  any 
tenant,   or  any  other  person  who  shall  bury,  or  permit  to  be 
buried,  the  body  of  any  deceased  person  on  any  lot  of  ground 
within   the   limits  of  the  city,   except  the   same  be   authorized 
as   a   cemetery,    except   by   special   permission   of    the    Health 
Commissioner,    shall,   upon   conviction,    be   fined   not  less  than 
two   hundred   and   fifty,    nor   more  than  five    hundred  dollars, 
to  be  recovered  for  the  use  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  as  in  other 
cases  of  misdemeanor,  before  any  court  or  officer  having  com- 
petent jurisdiction,  and  such  persons  shall  be  subject  to  a  like 
tine  for  each  and  every  day  the  body  of  any  deceased  person  shall 
remain  interred  in  said  lot. 

Sec.  6.  If  the  body  of  any  deceased  person  or  persons  be 
found  buried  on  any  lot  of  ground  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  the 
owner  or  agent  of  which  cannot  be  found,  it  shall  be  lawful,  and 


Governing  the  Health  Department,  31 

it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  Health  Commissioner  to  cause 
said  body  or  bodies  to  be  disinterred  and  buried  in  the  public 
burying  ground.  Provided,  however,  the  provisions  of  this  sec- 
tion shall  have  no  application  to  the  remains  of  deceased  persons 
which  have  been  interred  prior  to  the  passage  of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  7.  All  cemeteries  shall  be  in  charge  of  a  sexton  or  over- 
seer, and  the  name  of  such  sexton  or  overseer  shall  be  certified  to 
and  recorded  in  the  oflSce  of  the  Health  Commissioner  by  the 
person  or  persons  owning  or  controlling  such  cemetery. 

Sec.  8.  No  body  of  any  deceased  person  shall  be  buried  in  any 
cemetery  within  the  limits  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  at  a  less  depth 
than  six  feet  below  the  surface  of  the  ground.  Provided,  that 
the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not  be  applied  to  cases  where 
burial  vaults  or  tombs  have  been,  or  may  be,  erected  for  the 
reception  of  deceased  persons. 

Sec.  9.  Every  person  who  shall  convey  or  remove  or  assist  in 
conveying  or  removing  the  body  of  any  deceased  person  (whether 
such  person  shall  have  died  in  the  city  or  shall  have  been  brought 
to  the  city  after  death)  outside  of  the  limits  of  the  city  without 
first  having  obtained  from  the  oflice  of  the  Health  (yommissioner 
permission  so  to  do,  shall,  upon  conviction,  be  fined  not  less  than 
two  hundred  and  fifty  nor  more  than  five  hundred  dollars,  to  be 
recovered  for  the  use  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  as  in  other  cases 
of  misdemeanors,  before  any  court  or  officer  having  competent 
jurisdiction.  Provided,  that  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall 
have  no  application  where  bodies  in  course  of  transportation  pass 
through  St.  Louis  on  their  way  from  one  point  to  another. 

Sec.  10.  Every  person  who  shall  willfully  destroy,  disfigure 
or  injure  any  wall,  fence,  hedge,  monument,  tomb-stone,  tree  or 
shrubbery,  around  or  within  any  cemetery,  graveyard  or  burial 
ground,  or  shall  use  such  a  cemetery,  graveyard,  or  burial  ground 
for  any  other  purpose  than  a  burying  ground,  shall  be  deemed 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction,  shall  be  fined  not 
less  than  twenty  nor  more  than  five  hundred  dollars,  to  be  re- 
covered for  the  use  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  before  any  court  or 
officer  having  competent  jurisdiction. 

Sec.  11.  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  not  issue  a  permit  to 
bury  the  body  of  a  person  elsewhere,  except  upon  the  certificate 
of  a  physician  given  at  the  place  of  death,  or  the  certificate  of  the 
Coroner  of  St.  Louis. 

Sec.  12.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  to  carry  the 
body  of  any  deceased  person  to  any  of  the  cemeteries  or  burying 
grounds  within  the  limits  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  or  for  any 
sexton  or  other  person  in  charge  of  said  cemetery  or  burying  ground 
to  receive  the  body  of  any  deceased  person,  unless  accompanied 


32  Laws   and   Ordinances 

by  a  burial  certificate,  properly  signed  and  certified  to  by  the 
Health  Commissioner,  or  his  clerk. 

Sec.  13.  Every  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions 
of  this  ordinance,  for  which  no  penalty  has  been  provided,  shall, 
upon  conviction,  be  fined  not  less  than  ten  nor^more  than  five 
hundred  dollars,  to  be  recovered  for  the  use  of  the  City  of  St. 
Louis  before  any  court  or  officer  having  competent  jurisdiction. 

Sec.  14.  Nothing  in  this  ordinance  shall  be  so  construed  or 
understood  as  repealing  or  alterins:  any  of  the  provisions  or  por- 
tions of  ordinance  ten  thousand  three  hundred  and  twenty-nine, 
entitled,  **An  ordinance  to  provide  for  keeping  mortuary  records 
and  establishing  rules  and  regulations  governing  sextons  and 
cemeteries,"  approved  July  the  seventeenth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
seventy-seven. 

Approved  February  12,  1879. 

[10,358.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  providing  for  the  abatement  of  nuisances, 
defining  the  manner  how,  and  by  whom,  said  nuisances  shall  be 
abated  and  removed,  and  how  the  expense  of  same  shall  be  paid 
for,  and  also  providing  for  the  destruction  of  property  which  shall 
have  been  declared  by  the  Board  of  Health  dangerous  to  the 
Health  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  city,  and  also  providing  what 
steps  and  measures  shall  be  taken  in  case  any  malignant  or  conta- 
gious disease  is  prevalent  in  the  city,  and  repealing  all  ordinances, 
and  parts  of  ordinances,  conflicting  herewith. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis^ 
asfolloios : 

Section  1.  In  order  to  effect  the  abatement  of  nuisances  or 
removal  of  accumulated  filth,  the  Health  Commissioner  shall  have 
power,  whenever  in  his  opinion  such  nuisance  or  filth  exists,  and 
after  officially  so  declared  of  record  by  the  Board  of  Health,  to 
notify  the  owner  or  owners  thereof,  or  his  or  their  agents,  to 
abate  or  remove  the  same,  either  by  filling  up,,  draining,  clean- 
ing, purifying  or  removing  same,  as  the  case  may  be,  which  notice 
shall  be  served  upon  the  owner  or  agent  having  charge  of  such 
property,  in  the  same  manner  as  writs  of  summons  are  required 
to  be  served  in  civil  cases.  If  the  owner,  who  shall  have. been  so 
served  with  such  notice,  shall  fail,  within  the  time  indicated  in  such 
notice,  which  shall  be  discretionary  with  said  Health  Commis- 
sioner, to  comply  with  such  order,  or  fail  to  show  good  cause  to 
said  Health  Commissioner  why  he  cannot,  or  ought  not  to,  com- 
ply with  such  order,  for  which  purpose  he  shall  be  entitled  to  be 


Governing  the  Health  Defpartment,  33 

heard  before  said  Health  Commissioner  and  Board  of  Health,  if  he 
so  requests  it,  he  shall  be  deemed  guilt}^  of  a  misdemeanor,  and, 
on  conviction,  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars  ; 
and  the  nuisance  shall  be  abated,  and  special  tax  bills  rendered 
against  the  property  in  same  manner  as  against  non-residents,  ex- 
cept that  notice  by  advertisement  shall  not  be  necessary.  If  such 
service  cannot  be  made  for  the  reason  that  the  owner,  agents  or 
other  persons  having  charge  of  the  property  upon  which  the  nuis- 
ance may  exist,  cannot  be  found  in  the  city,  of  which  fact  the  re- 
turn upon  such  notice  of  the  officer  serving  the  same  shall  be  con- 
clusive evidence,  then  the  Health  Commissioner  shall  cause  such 
notice  to  be  published  in  the  newspapers  doing  the  city  printing, 
for  two  consecutive  days  (Sundays  excepted).  And  if  within 
two  days  after  the  service  of  such  notice,  or  after  its  publication 
as  aforesaid,  such  nuisance  shall  not  be  abated,  or  the  order  ob- 
served by  the  owner,  then  the  Health  Commissioner  may  order 
the  same  to  be  done  as  hereinafter  directed ;  and  the  cost  of  the 
same,  when  fully  completed,  shall  be  ascertained  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Public  Improvements,  in 
the  same  manner  as  special  tax  bills  for  street  improvements,  and 
the  amount  thereof  shall  be  assessed  as  a  special  tax  against  the 
property  so  improved,  or  upon  which" such  work  has  been  done, 
in  the  name  of  the  owners  thereof,  of  which  the  books  of  the  As- 
sessor shall  be  proof,  and  the  certified  bills  of  such  assessment 
shall  describe  therein  the  property  upon  which  the  work  was  done. 
Said  bills  shall  be  recorded  and  shall  be  collected  and  paid  as  pro- 
vided in  the  Charter  in  relation  to  the  collection  of  other  special 
tax  bills,  and  shall  be  a  lien  on  said  property,  and  the  Health 
Commissioner  shall  keep  a  record  of  his  proceedings  in  all  cases 
of  abatements  ordered  by  him. 

Sec.  2.  All  contracts  for  work  contemplated  by  this  ordinance 
on  which  special  tax  bills  are  to  be  issued,  shall  be  entered  into 
by  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Public  Improvements,  in  the 
name  of  the  city,  based  on  the  estimates  of  the  cost  by  the  Presi- 
dents of  the  Board  of  Public  Improvements,  accompanied  by. 
reports  of  surveys  and  profiles,  in  cases  requiring  the  same  in  the 
judgment  of  such  President,  and  shall  be  approved  by  the  Mayor 
and  registered  in  the  office  of  the  Comptroller. 

Sec.  3.  It  is  made  the  duty  of  all  police  officers  to  observe  the 
sanitary  condition  of  their  districts,  and  through  the  Chief  of 
Police  to  report  to  the  Health  Commissioner  promptly,  any 
nuisance  or  accumulated  filth  found  to  exist  in  any  portion  of  the 
city. 

Sec.  4.  Whenever  any  bedding,  clothing,  putrid  or  unsound 
meat,  beef,  pork,  fish,  hides  or  skins  of  any  kind,  decayed  or 
unsound  vegetables,  oriruit,  or  any  other  article  found  within  the 


34  Laws  and    Ordinances 

City  of  St.  Louis,  which  in  the  opinion  of  the  Health  Commission- 
er, shall  be  dangerous  to  the  health  of  the  inhabitants  thereof,  and 
which  shall  be  officially  so  declared  of  record  by  the  Board  of 
Health,  the  Health  Commissioner  shall  have  the  power  and 
authority  to  cause  to  be  destroyed  any  and  all  such  articles  above 
named,  in  such  manner  as  he  may  direct,  and  he  may  employ  such 
persons  as  he  may  deem  proper  to  remove  or  destroy  such  articles, 
and  every  person  who  shall  in  any  manner  resist  or  hinder  any 
person  so  employed,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdeuieanor, 
and  on  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  ^yq,  nor 
more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  and  all  such  fines  when  collected 
shall  be  paid  into  the  City  Treasury. 

Sec.  5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  Health,  whenever 
the  Health  Commissioner  has  officially  notified  said  Board,  or 
when  any  complaint  has  been  made  to  said  Board  by  any  citizen, 
that  any  business,  trade  or  profession  carried  on  by  any  person 
or  persons  or  corporations  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  is  detrimental 
to  public  health,  or  wherever  any  nuisance  or  filth  exists  on  the 
property  of  any  person  or  corporation,  to  notify  such  person  or 
persons  or  corporations  to  show  cause  before  said  Board  of  Health, 
at  a  time  and  place  to  be  specified  in  such  notice,  why  the  same 
should  not  be  abated,  discontinued  or  removed  ;  which  notice 
shall  not  be  valid  unless  served  at  least  five  days  before  the  time 
specified  in  such  notice  (except  in  case  of  epidemic  or  pestilence, 
when  the  Health  Commissioner,  with  the  approval  of  the  Board  of 
Health,  may  by  general  order  direct  a  shorter  time),  and  may  be 
served  by  1  aving  the  same  at  the  place  of  business  or  residence 
of  the  parties  to  be  aifected  thereby,  or  their  agents,  by  some 
officer  or  person  duly  qualified  to  certify  to  such  notice ;  and  all 
notices  of  this  kind  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  shall  be  signed 
and  certified  to  by  the  person  or  officer  delegated  to  make  such 
service.  If  such  notice  cannot  be  given  for  the  reason  that  the 
owner,  agents  or  other  persons  named  in  such  notice  cannot  be 
found  in  the  city,  of  which  fact  the  return  upon  such  notice  of  the 
officer  or  person  serving  the  same  shall  be  conclusive  evidence, 
then  the  Board  of  Health  shall  cause  such  notice  to  be  published 
in  the  newspapers  doing  the  city  printing  for  two  consecutive 
days,  Sundays  excepted.  At  the  time  fixed  in  said  notice  the 
parties  may  appear  in  person,  by  attorney,  or  cause  may  be  shown 
by  affidavit,  and  if  in  the  opinion  of  the  Board  of  Health  and 
Health  Commissioner,  no  good  and  sufficient  cause  be  shown  why 
the  said  nuisance,  business,  trade  or  profession  should  not  be 
abated,  discontinued  or  removed,  the  Health  Commissioner  shall 
order  the  said  parties  to  abate,  discontinue  or  remove  the  same 
within  such  time  as  the  Health  Commissioner  may  deem  reasona- 


Governing  the  Health   Department.  35 

ble  and  necessary.  If,  upon  the  hearing  of  the  affidavits,  and  the 
evidence  adduced  in  the  case,  tho  Board  shall  find  the  facts  to  be 
in  favor  of  the  parties  before  them,  and  so  decide,  the  case  shall 
be  dismissed. 

Sec.  H.  Any  person  or  persons  failing  or  refusing  to  obey  such 
order  of  said  Health  Commissioner  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor,  and,  upon  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  fined  not  less 
than  twenty  nor  more  than  five  hundred  dollars  ;  and  such  person 
or  persons  shall  be  subject  to  like  fines,  for  each  and  every  day 
he,  she  or  they,  shall  continue  such  nuisance,  business,  trade  or 
profession  after  the  expiration  of  the  time  specified  in  the  order 
of  the  Health  Commissioner  for  the  abatement,  removal  or  dis- 
continuance of  the  same.  .  The  fines  mentioned  in  this  ordinance 
shall  be  collected  as  other  fines,  and  paid  into  the  City  Treasury. 

Sec.  7.  Whenever  it  shall  come  to  the  knowledge  of  the 
Mayor  that  any  malignant,  infectious  or  contageous  disease  or 
epidemic  is  prevalent  in  the  city,  or  will  probably  become  so,  he 
may  make  proclamation  of  such  fact  to  the  inhabitants  ;  and  after 
such  proclamation,  the  Health  Commissioner,  with  the  approval  of 
the  Board  of  Health,  may  have  power  by  order,  to  take  all  steps 
and  use  all  measures  necessary  to  avoid,  suppress  or  mitigate  such 
disease,  without  the  intervention  of  the  Assembly,  iu  the  same  man- 
ner and  as  effectually  as  the  Assembly  could  itself  do  by  ordin- 
ance, and  may  employ  such  officers,  agents,  servant  and  assistants, 
establish  temporary  hospitals,  provide  necessary  furniture,  medi- 
cal attendance  and  nurses,  as  in  the  opinion  of  the  said  Commis- 
sioner, with  the  advice  and  counsel  of  said  Board  of  Health  may 
be  necessary  and  advisable  ;  provided,  that  the  amount  expended 
shall  not  exceed  the  appropriation  for  the  Health  Department. 
The  Health  Commissioner  shall  have  and  exercise  such  power  un- 
til he  shall  declare,  or  until  the  Mayor  shall  proclaim  that  the  epi- 
demic or  disease,  iu  view  of  which  the  proclamation  was  made,  is 
no  longer  imminent  or  prevalent,  whereupon  the  said  power  shall 
cease. 

Sec.  8.  Whenever  one  or  more  resident  tax-payers,  living  in 
the  immediate  vicinity  of  any  pond  or  ponds  of  putrid  or  stagnant 
water,  shall  notify  the  Health  Commissioner  that  said  pond  or 
ponds  are  a  nuisance  by  being  dangerous  to  life,  detrimental  to  the 
health  of  the  neighborhood  in  which  they  are  situated,  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  Health  Commissioner  to  examine  or  cause  to  be 
examined  the  same,  and  report  the  result  of  such  examination  and 
all  the  facts  connected  therewith  to  the  Board  of  Health  within  a 
reasonable  length  of  time  after  such  examination  is  made.  If, 
after  a  careful  inquiry  into  the  same,  the  said  Board  of  Health 
shall  decide  that  said  pond  or  ponds  are  a  nuisance,  and  dangerous 
to  life,  detrimental  or  injurious  to  the  health  of  the  neighborhood  ; 


i. 


36  Laws   and   Ordinances 

due  notice  having  been  given  to  the  owner  or  owners,  agents, 
representatives  of  the  property  whereon  said  ponds  are  situated, 
as  provided  for  by  section  5  of  this  ordinance,  the  Board  of  Health 
shall  officially  declare  the  same  a  nuisance,  and  the  Health  Com- 
missioner shall  order  the  abatement  of  the  same.  The  Health 
Commissioner  thereupon  shall  notify  the  owner,  owners,  agents  or 
representatives,  as  provided  for  in  section  5  of  this  ordinance,  of 
the  action  of  the  Board  of  Health  in  the  premises,  and  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  Health  Commissioner  to  see  that  said  nuisance  or 
nuisances  are  abated,  either  by  filling  or  draining.  If  the  owner, 
owners,  their  agents  or  legal  representatives  refuse  or  neglect  to 
comply  with  the  order  of  the  Health  Commissioner,  or  fail  in  any 
manner  to  abate  the  said  nuisances  within  a  given  time,  the  Health 
Commissioner  shall  report  the  same  to  the  President  of  the  Board 
of  Public  Improvements,  who  shall  at  once  proceed  to  abate  the 
same  as  provided  for  by  sections  1  and  2  of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  9.  All  ordinances  and  parts  of  ordinances  inconsistent 
herewith  are  hereby  repealed. 

Approved  August  14,  1877. 

[10,805.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  concerning  the  construction  of  privies, 
sinks,  basins  and  stationary  tubs  and  their  connection  with  sewers, 
and  prescribing  the  duties  of  the  Health  Commissioner,  in  rela- 
tion thereto  and  repealing  ordinance  number  ten  thousand  three 
hundred  and  sixty -one,  entitled  '*  An  ordinance  concerning  the 
construction  of  privies  and  their  connection  with  sewers,  and  pre- 
scribing the  duties  of  the  Health  Commissioner  in  relation  there- 
to, and  repealing  sections  one,  two,  three,  four,  five  and  six,  of 
article  two  of  chapter  twelve  of  the  Revised  Ordinances  of  the 
City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  thirty -first,  eighteen  hundred 
and  seventy-one,"  and  repealing  sections  one,  two,  three,  four, 
five  and  six,  of  article  two  of  chapter  twelve  of  the  Revised 
Ordinances  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  thirty-first, 
eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-one. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the    Municipal  Assembly  of  the    City   of  jSt. 
Louis  f  as  follows: 

Section  1.  Each  and  every  tenement  within  this  city,  except 
such  parts  which  are  not  laid  out  in  blocks,  or  where  streets  have 
not  been  opened,  used  as  a  dwelling  house  or  factory  shall  be  fur- 
nished with  a  suitable  privy,  the  vault  of  which  shall  be  sunk 
under  ground  at  least  ten  feet  deep  and  walled  up  with  brick  or 
stone,  except  in  cases  where  said  privies  are  connected  with  dis- 
trict or  public  sewers,  and  shall  be  so  constructed  that  the  iuside 


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Governing  the  Health  Department.  37 

of  the  same  shall  be  at  least  two  feet  distance  from  the  line  of 
every  adjoining  lot,  unless  the  owner  of  the  adjoining  lot  shall 
otherwise  agree,  and  also  the  same  distance  from  every  street, 
lane  or  avenue,  and  no  privy  shall  be  constructed  at  vjiriance  with 
these  regulations,  except  by  special  permission  of  the  Health 
Commissioner. 

Sec.  2.  The  Health  Commissioner  being  satisfied  that  any 
tenement  is  not  provided  with  a  suitable  privy,  and  that  such 
l)rivy  is  a  nuisance,  and  after  it  shall  have  been  officially  declared 
a  nuisance  by  the  Board  of  Health,  shall  serve  a  written  or 
printed  notice  of  such  action  thereon  and  shall  direct  and  order 
that  a  proper  and  lawful  privy  shall  be  constructed  or  that  such 
privy  vault  shall  be  cleaned  and  put  into  good  sanitary  condition 
for  such  tenement  within  a  time  to  be  designated  by  the  Health 
Commissioner,  not  less  than  five  days  from  the  date  of  service  of 
•such  notice  to  the  owner  thereof  or  his  agent  or  the  tenant  occu- 
pying said  premises,  which  notice  shall  be  served  upon  the  owner, 
tenant  or  agent  having  charge  of  such  property  in  the  same  man- 
ner as  writs  of  summons  are  required  to  be  served  in  civil  cases. 
If  the  owner,  agent  or  tenant,  who  shall  have  been  so  served  with 
such  notice,  shall  fail  within  the  time  indicated  in  such  notice, 
which  shall  be  discretionary  with  said  Health  Commissioner,  to 
comply  with  such  order,  or  fail  to  show  good  cause  to  said  Health 
Commissioner  why  he  can  not  or  ought  not  to  comply  with  such 
order,  for  which  purpose  he  shall  be  entitled  to  be  heard  before 
said  Health  Commissioner  and  Board  of  Health,  if  he  so  requests 
it,  he  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  on  conviction 
shall  be  fined  not  less  than  twenty  nor  more  than  five  hundred 
dollars,  to  be  recovered  for  the  use  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  before 
any  court  or  officer  having  competent  jurisdiction.  The  owner, 
tenant  or  agent  shall  be  subject  to  like  fine,  for  each  and  every  day 
he,  she  or  they  shall  continue  to  refuse  to  obey  said  order  of  said 
Health  Commissioner  after  the  expiration  of  the  time  specified  in 
the  order  of  the  Health  Commissioner  for  the  abatement  of  the 
same. 

Sec.  3.  The  vaults  or  privies  in  or  belonging  to  all  residences, 
factories,  mills  and  warehouses  located  on  a  line  of  any  street  or 
alley  through  which  there  is  a  public,  private  or  district  sewer, 
shall  be  connected  by  the  owners,  tenants  or  lessees  of  said  prop- 
erty with  such  public,  district  or  private  sewer,  when  possible, 
whenever  required  to  do  so  by  order  of  the  Health  Commissioner, 
approved  by  the  Board  of  Health,  and  so  declared  of  record,  which 
notice  or  order  shall  be  served  upon  the  owner,  tenant  or  agent 
having  charge  of  such  property,  in  the  same  manner  as  writs  of 
summons  are  required  to  be  served  in  civil  cases,  and  if  the  owner, 
tenant  or  agent,  who  shall  have  been  served  with  such  notice,  shall 


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fail  within  the  time  indicated  in  such  notice,  which  shall  be  discre- 
tionary with  said  Health  Commissioner,  to  comply  with  such  order, 
or  fail  to  show  good  cause  to  said  Health  Commissioner,  why  he 
cannot  or  ought  not  to  comply  with  such  order,  for  which  pur- 
pose he  shall  be  entitled  to  be  heard  before  said  Health  Commis- 
sioner and  Board  of  Health,  if  he  so  request  it,  he  shall  be  deemed 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  on  conviction,  shall  be  fined  not  less 
than  twenty  nor  more  than  five  hundred  dollars,  to  be  recovered 
for  the  use  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  before  any  court  or  officer 
having  competent  jurisdiction. 

Sec.  4.  No  privy  within  the  limits  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis, 
as  they  existed  in  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-five, 
shall  be  emptied  between  the  fifteenth  day  of  May  and  the  fifteenth 
day  of  October,  unless  the  Health  Commissioner  shall  be  satisfied 
that  the  same  is  absolutely  necessary  for  the  health  and  comfort  of 
the  inhabitants,  and  in  such  case  they  shall  be  thoroughly  cleaned 
by  vault  cleaners  only,  upon  a  permit  obtained  from  the  Health 
Commissioner,  for  which  the  party  applying  shall  pay  the  sum  of 
twenty-five  cents,  and  the  Clerk  of  the  Health  Commissioner  shall 
keep  a  full  record  of  all  permits  thus  issued,  and  report  the  same 
to  the  Comptroller  and  pay  the  same  into  the  City  Treasury  once 
every  week.  No  privy  shall  be  emptied  at  any  other  time  than 
between  the  hours  of  twelve  p.  m.  and  four  a.  m.,  unless  by 
special  permission  or  order  from  the  Health  Commissioner. 

Sec.  5.  The  owner  or  occupant  of  any  premises  where  tubs  or 
other  vessels  are  used  in  a  privy,  shall  not  permit  such  tubs  or 
other  vessels  to  remain  more  than  one  day  without  being  emptied. 

Sec.  6.  All  sinks,  basins  and  stationary  tubs  in  every  hotel, 
lodging,  tenement,  boarding  house,  or  other  dwelling,  in  the  City 
of  St.  Louis,  shall  be  provided  with  proper  stench  traps,  directly 
under  each  sink,  basin,  or  stationary  tub,  so  connected  with  waste 
or  soil  pipe,  and  so  constructed  as  directed  by  the  Health  Com- 
missioner, approved  by  the  Board  of  Health,  and  with  the  traps 
so  adjusted  as  to  prevent  the  escape  therefrom  of  foul  odors  and 
gases. 

Sec.  7.  Any  person  or  persons  violating  any  of  the  provisions 
of  this  ordinance,  for  which  no  special  penalty  has  been  provided, 
shall,  upon  conviction,  be  fined  not  less  than  twenty  nor  more  than 
five  hundred  dollars,  to  be  recovered  for  the  use  of  the  City  of  St. 
Louis,  before  any  court  or  officer  having  competent  jurisdiction. 

Sec.  8.  Ordinance  10,361,  entitled  **  An  ordinance  concern- 
ing the  construction  of  privies  and  their  connection  with  sewers, 
and  prescribing  the  duties  of  the  Health  Commissioner  in  relation 
thereto,  and  repealing  sections  one,  two,  three,  four,  five  and  six, 
of  article  two  of  chapter  twelve  of  the  Revised  Ordinances  of  the 
City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  31, 1871,  and  sections  one,  two. 


Governing  the  Health  Department.  ^  39 

three,  four,  five  and  six  of  article  two  of  chapter   twelve    of  the 
Revised  Ordinances  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  31, 
1871,"  are  hereby  repealed. 
Approved  July  5,  1878. 

[10,617.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  in  relation  to  streets,  sidewalks,  gutters  and 
private  alleys,  and  to  repeal  article  eleven  of  chapter  twelve  of 
the  Revised  Ordinances  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis, 
asfolloivs: 

Section  1.  The  owners,  or  agents,  or  occupiers  of  tenements 
and  vacant  lots,  owned  by  them,  under  their  charge  or  occupied 
by  them,  shall  keep  the  sidewalks  and  gutters  in  front  of  and 
adjoining  their  property  clean,  and  also  all  the  private  alleys  in 
the  rear  of  or  adjoining  the  property  owned  by  them,  clean  to  the 
center  of  such  alley,  and  after  any  fall  of  snow  to  cause  the  snow 
to  be  immediately  removed  from  the  sidewalk,  fronting  their 
respective  lots,  into  the  carriage  way  of  the  street.  Any  person 
failing  to  comply  with  the  requirements  of  this  section  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof  be 
'fined  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars. 

Sec.  2.  No  person  shall  deposit  any  dead  animal,  or  excre- 
ments, or  filth  from  privies,  or  any  hay  or  straw,  or  refuse  vege- 
tables, or  dirt,  or  rubbish  of  any  kind  or  description,  or  any 
kitchen  slops,  or  manure,  upon  any  streets,  alleys  or  public  or 
private  property  in  this  city.  Any  person  found  guilty  of  vio- 
lating any  of  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be  deemed  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof  be  fined  not  less 
than  five  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars.  Provided,  that  nothing  in 
this  section  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  include  manure  deposited 
upon  any  private  property  for  the  purpose  of  cultivating  the  same. 

Sec.  3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  police  within  their  respec- 
tive districts,  to  watch  for  and  arrest  persons  throwing  or  permit- 
ting to  be  thrown  from  their  premises  into  any  street,  alley,  market 
place,  sidewalk  or  gutter  any  filth  or  other  matter  prohibited  by 
section  two  of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  4.  The  police  shall  examine  the  condition  of  the  streets 
and  alleys  within  their  respective  districts  from  time  to  time,  and 
report  to  the  Street  Commissioner,  through  the  Police  Commis- 
sioners, such  as  need  repairing,  they  shall  also  observe  within 
their  respective  districts  the  cleaning  of  the  streets,  alleys,  ave- 
nues, market  places  and  public  squares  of  the  city,  and  report  to 
the  Street  Commissioner,  through  the  Police  Commissioners,  such 
as  need  cleaning. 


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Sec.  5.  Article  eleven,  chapter  twelve,  of  the  Kevised  Ordi- 
nances of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  thirty-first, 
eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-one,  is  hereby  repealed. 

Approved  February  19,  1878. 

[10,750.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  to  secure  the  general  health  of  the  inhabit- 
ants of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  and  to  provide  for  the  abatement 
of  nuisances  on  the  public  streets  and  alleys  of  the  City  of  St. 
Louis  and  to  provide  for  the  carrying  out  of  necessary  sanitary 
measures. 

Whereas,  It  is  provided  in  clause  6,  of  section  26,  of  article  3, 
of  the  Charter  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  that  the  Municipal  As- 
sembly shall  have  power  by  any  measure  necessary  to  secure  the 
health  of  the  inhabitants  of  said  city  and  to  prevent  and  abate 
nuisances  on  public  property,  and 

Whereas,  There  is  no  ordinance  now  in  existence  in  relation  to 
the  above,  and  in  the  judgment  of  the  Municipal  Assembly  an 
emergency  exists,  therefore  this  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be 
in  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  Oily  of  St.  Louis, 
as  follows: 

Section  1.  Whenever,  in  the  opinion  of  the  Health  Commis- 
sioner, preservation  of  the  health  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  City 
of  St.  Louis,  or  any  portion  thereof,  requires  steps  to  be  taken  to 
remove  any  causes  that  in  his  opinion  are  dangerous  to  the  lives 
of  the  citizens  of  St.  Louis,  or*  where,  in  his  opinion,  certain 
public  work  is  necessary  to  be  done  in  a  sanitary  point  of  view, 
or  where  there  exists  any  ponds  on  the  dedicated  streets  or  alleys 
of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  which  ponds,  in  the  opinion  of  the 
Health  Commissioner,  are  nuisances  and  detrimental  to  the  public 
health,  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  make  a  report  to  the  Board  of 
Health,  setting  forth  all  the  facts  in  the  case,  which  facts  shall 
specify  what  matters,  in  his  opinion,  are  deleterious  to  the  public 
health,  in  what  locality  of  the  city  they  are  situated,  their  char- 
acter and  cause  and  the  manner,  in  his  opinion,  in  which  they 
should  be  removed,  and,  when  possible,  the  estimated  cost  of  the 
work  proposed  to  be  done. 

Sec.  2.  The  Board  of  Health,  whenever  the  Health  Commis- 
sioner shall  make  any  report  to  them,  as  provided  for  in  section 
1  of  this  ordinance,  shall  make  a  careful  inquiry  into  the  same, 
and  if,  in  the  opinion  of  the  Board  of  Health,  the  sanitary  meas- 
ures recommended  by  the  Health  Commissioner  are  necessary  and 
proper  to  be  carried  out,  they  shall  so  officially  declare  the  same 


Governing   the  Health  Department,  41 

of  record,  and  shall  direct  the  work  to  be  done  in  the  manner  as 
provided  for  hereafter  in  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  3.  Whenever  any  sanitary  measures  are  to  be  carried  out 
or  work  to  be  done  as  provided  for  in  this  ordinance,  the  Board 
of  Health  shall  by  order  direct  the  President  of  the  Board  of 
Public  Improvements  to  cause  said  work  to  be  done  in  the  man- 
ner and  by  means  as  shall  be  indicated  by  the  Board  of  Health, 
and  the  cost  of  said  work,  when  fully  completed,  shall  be  certi- 
lied  to  by  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Public  Improvements, 
and  shall  be  approved  and  signed  by  a  majority  of  the  Board  of 
Health,  and  when  so  signed  and  approved  shall  be  paid  out 
of  the  fund  set  apart  for  the  abatement  of  nuisances  on  public 
property,  and  for  specific  sanitary  measures. 

Sec.  4.  If,  in  the  opinion  of  the  President  of  the  Board  of 
Public  Improvements,  the  work  to  be  done,  or  the  method  pro- 
posed by  the  Board  of  Health  for  such  work,  are  not  judicious  or 
practicable,  he  shall  so  notify  the  Board  of  Plealth,  giving  his 
reasons  therefor  and  his  recommendations  in  the  premises,  and  if,  in 
the  opinion  of  the  Board  of  Health,  such  reasons  and  opinions  of 
the  President  of  the  Board  of  Public  Improvements  are  reasonable 
and  proper,  they  may  order  the  work  to  be  done  in  the  manner 
indicated  by  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Public  Improvements. 

Approved  May  18,  1878. 

[10,375.] 

AN  OliDINANCE  to  prohibit  the  sale  of  any  kind  of  diseased, 
corrupted,  adulterated  or  unwholesome  provisions  and  the  sale  of 
adulterated  drugs  or  medicines. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis^ 
asfolloivs : 

Section  1 .  Whoever  shall  sell  any  kind  of  diseased,  corrupted, 
adulterated  or  unwholesome  provisions,  or  meat  to  be  used  for 
food  or  drink,  without  making  the  same  known  at  the  time  of  sale 
to  the  purchaser,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor. 

Sec.  2.  Whoever  shall  adulterate,  for  the  purpose  of  sale, 
any  bread,  milk  or  other  article  of  food  or  drink  whatever,  with 
any  substance  injurious  to  health,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor. 

Sec.  3.  Whoever  shall  adulterate,  for  the  purpose  of  sale,  any 
liquor  or  fluid  used  or  intended  for  drink,  with  substances  poison- 
ous or  injurious  to  health,  and  whoever,  in  this  city,  shall  sell  any 
such  liquor  or  fluid  so  adulterated,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor. 


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Sec.  4.  Whoever  shall  adulterate,  for  the  purpose  of  sale,  any 
drugs  or  medicines,  or  sell  any  adulterated  drugs  or  medicines, 
without  making  the  same  known  at  the  time  of  sale  to  the  pur- 
chaser, shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor. 

Sec.  5.  Whoever  shall  sell  or  offer  for  sale  any  milk  adulter- 
ated with  water  or  other  substance,  or  any  milk  produced  from 
diseased  cows,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor. 

Sec.  6.  All  persons  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  the  fore- 
going sections  of  this  ordinance,  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof, 
be  fined  not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hun- 
dred dollars,  to  be  recovered  for  the  use  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis 
before  any  court  or  officer  having  competent  jurisdiction. 

Approved  September  25,  1877. 

[10,383.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  authorizing  and  empowering  the  Board  of 
Health  of  the  city  of  St.  Louis  to  do  all  acts  and  perform  all 
functions  which  have  heretofore  been  done  and  performed  by  the 
County  Court  of  the  County  of  St.  Louis,  in  relation  to  the  admis- 
sion of  deaf  and  dumb  persons  to  the  Missouri  Institution  for  the 
Education  of  the  Deaf  and  Dumb,  and  the  admission  of  blind  per- 
sons to  the  Missouri  Institution  for  the  Education  of  the  Blind. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Mum,cipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  8t.  Louis, 
as  follows  : 

Section  1.  The  Board  of  Health  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  is 
hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  do  all  acts  and  perform  all 
functions  which  have  heretofore  been  done  and  performed  by  the 
County  Court  of  the  County  of  St.  Louis  prior  to  the  adoption  of 
the  Scheme  for  the  separation  and  reorganization  of  the  govern- 
ment of  the  City  and  County  of  St.  Louis,  and  the  adjustment  of 
their  relations  in  reference  to  the  admission  of  deaf  and  dumb 
persons  to  the  Missouri  Institution  for  the  Education  of  the  Deaf 
and  Dumb,  and  the  admission  of  blind  persons  to  the  Missouri 
Institution  for  the  Education  of  the  Blind. 

Sec.  2.  The  Board  of  Health  is  hereby  authorized  and  em- 
powered to  execute  and  carry  out  all  existing  laws,  and  such  laws 
as  may  hereafter  be  passed  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State 
of  Missouri  which  confer  any  power  or  require  the  performance  of 
any  duty  by  County  Courts  in  reference  to  the  admission  of  deaf 
and  dumb  and  blind  persons  to  the  institutions  provided  by  the 
State  for  their  education. 

Sec.  3.  There  being  no  ordinance  in  existence  in  relation  to 
the  subject  matter  referred  to  in  sections  one  and  two  of  this 
ordinance,  in  the  opinion  of  the  Municipal  Assembly  it  is  deemed 


Governing  the  Health  Department.  43 

that  an  emergency  exists,  therefore  this  ordinance  shall  take  eiFect 
and  be  in  full  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 
Approved  October  11,  1877. 

/  [10,062.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  to  repeal  ordinance  number  six  thousand 
seven  hundred  and  forty-five,  entitled  "An  ordinance  to  repeal 
ordinance  six  thousand  and  sixteen,  entitled  *An  ordinance  to 
amend  ordinance  number  five  thousand  four  hundred  and  thirty- 
three,'"  and  to  provide  for  the  removal  of  the  carcasses  of  dead 
animals  from  the  streets  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  City   Council  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis: 

Section  1.  It  shall  be  the  exclusive  privilege  and  duty  of 
the  River  Rendering  Company  of  St.  Louis,  for  a  period  of  eight 
years  from  and  after  the  passage  of  this  ordinance,  to  remove  out 
of  the  city  and  beyond  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Board  of  Health 
as  now  or  as  may  be  hereafter  established,  the  remains  and  car- 
casses of  every  dead  horse,  mare,  mule,  ox,  steer,  cow,  ass,  hog, 
goat,  dog  or  other  animals  within  ten  hours  after  a  report  shall 
be  made  to  the  said  River  Rendering  Company  by  the  Chief  of 
Police,  or  any  authorized  agent  of  the  Board  of  Health ;  and 
appropriate  them  to  their  own  use,  observing  every  care,  and 
using  the  utmost  precaution  that  the  carcasses  of  said  animals  be 
conveyed  away  in  the  most  unoffensive  manner  possible,  causing 
them  to  be  covered  with  tarpaulins  or  otherwise.  The  drivers  of 
the  teams  conveying  away  said  carcasses  shall  not  stop  on  the 
way  unless  detained  by  some  unforeseen  accident  under  a  penalty 
of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars  for  each 
offence,  which  fine  shall,  upon  the  conviction  of  any  driver  or 
drivers  of  such  teams  be  recovered  and  enforced  as  other  fines 
before  the  Police  Justice. 

Sec.  2.  The  River  Rendering  Company  shall  cause  to  be  re- 
moved and  placed  upon  a  receiving  boat  or  boats  of  suitable  size, 
strength  and  dimensions,  all  carcasses  and  remains  of  dead 
animals  mentioned  in  section  one  of  this  ordinance,  within  six 
hours  after  a  report  shall  be  made  to  said  River  Rendering  Com- 
pany, in  conformity  with  the  provisions  of  said  section  one ;  and 
no  rendering  or  manufacturing  upon  such  receiving  boat  or  boats 
shall  be  done  inside  the  city  limits,  and  only  in  such  manner  and 
in  such  place  as  may  be  designated  by  the  Board  of  Health,  and 
so  that  no  nuisance  may  be  created  thereby ;  provided,  however, 
that  during  the  winter  months,  when  the  river  is  blocked  with 
ice,  such  steam  rendering  or  manufacturins:  may  be  done  in  such 


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manner,  in  such  place  and  at  such  hours  as  may  be  designated  by 
the  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  3.  The  River  Rendering  Company  shall,  before  being 
authorized  to  perform  the  duties  and  enjoy  the  privileges  granted 
by  this  ordinance,  execute  to  the  city  of  St.  Louis  a  bond, 
with  good  and  sufficient  securities,  in  the  sum  of  five  thousand 
dollars,  to  be  approved  by  the  Mayor  and  filed  and  preserved  in 
the  office  of  the  City  Register,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  and 
punctual  performance  of  the  duties  imposed  by  the  provisions  of 
this  ordinance. 

Sec.  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Police  Department  to 
notify  the  River  Rendering  Company,  their  officers  or  agents,  of 
the  whereabouts  of  every  animal  carcass  which  they  may  find  or 
of  the  existence  of  which  within  the  city  limits  they  may  be 
informed,  as  soon  as  possible,  and  within  six  hours  of  their  being 
so  notified  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  River  Rendering  Company 
to  remove  the  same  in  the  manner  specified  in  section  one  of  this 
ordinance  ;  and,  upon  the  faihire  of  said  company  to  so  remove  the 
carcass  of  any  dead  animal  within  the  time  so  specified,  the  Manager 
or  Chief  Officer  thereof  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  ten  dolhirs 
for  the  first  offence,  and  for  every  subsequent  offence  twenty  dol- 
lars, to  be  recovered  as  other  fines  before  the  Police  Justice. 

Sec.  5.  The  River  Rendering  Company,  or  any  person,  co- 
partnership of  persons  or  corporation  who  shall  remove  the  car- 
cass or  carcasses  of  any  dead  animalor  animals  not  slain  for  the 
purposes  of  human  food,  shall  give  a  bond  of  five  thousand  dol- 
lars as  a  guarantee  that  none  of  the  product  of  any  carcass  speci- 
fied in  section  one  of  this  ordinance  shall  be  employed  or  utilized 
for  purposes  of  human  food,  and  that  all  grease  and  other  pro- 
ducts rendered  or  manufactured  or  packed  for  use  or  transporta- 
tion, to  or  from  market  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis  or  elscAvhere, 
shall  be  branded  with  a  burning  brand  as  follows  :  "Product  of 
dead  animals,  St.  Louis." 

Sec.  6.  Hereafter  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person,  co- 
partnership of  persons  or  corporation,  except  the  River  Render- 
ing company,  to  remove  the  carcasses  of  any  dead  animals  as 
specified  in  this  ordinance,  without  first  having  oi)tained  a  permit 
so  to  do  from  the  Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Health,  said  permit  specify- 
ing date,  when,  and  person  to  whom  issued,  the  kind  of  carcass  or 
animal  to  be  removed,  the  place  to  and  from  which  the  same  is  to 
be  taken,  and  the  character  of  the  products  to  be  derived  from 
the  same. 

Sec.  7.  The  River  Rendering  Company  shall  have  free  use  of 
the  levee  for  the  receiving  boats  provided  for  in  section  2  of  this 
ordinance,  at  not  less  than  two  suitable  places,  one  of  which  shall 
be  near  the  northern  and  one  near  the  southern  portion  of  the  city, 


Governing  the  Health  Department.  45 

such  places  to  be  designated  by  the  City  Engineer,  with  the  ap- 
proval of  the  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  8.  Any  failure  of  the  River  Rendering  Company  to  com- 
ply with  or  fulfill  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance,  or  when 
so  reported  to  the  City  Council  by  the  Board  of  Health,  and  upon 
the  recommendation  of  said  Board  of  Health,  this  ordinance  may 
be  amended,  altered  or  repealed. 

Sec.  9.  The  River  Rendering  Company,  at  the  time  of  filing 
the  bonds  provided  for  in  sections  3  and  5  of  this  ordinance,  shall 
also  file  their  written  acceptance  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordi- 
nance. 

Sec.  10.  Any  person  or  persons  violating  any  of  the  provis- 
ions of  this  ordinance,  shall  be  adjudged  guilty  of  a  misdmeanor, 
and  on  conviction  thereof  before  the  Police  Justice,  shall  be  fined 
in  a  sum  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  for  each  of- 
fence. 

Sec.  11.  Ordinance  No.  6,745,  entitled  <'An  ordinance  to  re- 
peal ordinance  No.  6,016,  entitled  'An  ordinance  to  amend  ordi- 
nance luunber  five  thousand  four  hundred  and  thirty-three,  and  to 
provide  for  the  removal  of  the  carcasses  of  dead  animals  from  the 
streets  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,"  is  hereby  repealed. 

Approved  July  7,  1876. 

[10,325.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  to  provide  for  the  removal  of  slops  and  to 
repeal  article  ten 'of  chapter  twelve  of  the  Revised  Ordinances  of 
the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  31,  1871. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the   City  of  St. 
Louis,  as  foUoivs: 

Section  1.  The  Board  of  Health  is  hereby  authorized  and 
instructed  to  contract  for  the  removal  of  slops  from  the  streets, 
alleys  and  roads  within  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  in  such  manner  and 
under  such  conditions  as  said  Board  of  Health  may  deem  expe- 
dient, to  be  specified  in  the  contract,  and  the  said  contract  shall 
be  awarded  to  the  lowest  and  best  bidder,  after  advertising  for 
proposals  in  the  papers  doing  the  city  printing  for  not  less  than 
five  days ;  said  advertisement  shall  be  made  by  and  under  the 
supervision  of  the  Register. 

Sec.  2.  The  word  slops  is  intended  to  mean  all  refuse  matter 
and  articles,  whether  vegetable  or  animal,  thrown  out  or  rejected 
from  the  kitchens  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  city. 

Sec.  3.  The  Board  of  Health  shall  order  and  direct  to  what 
point  and  in  what  manner  the  slops  shall  be  removed. 


46  Laws  and   Ordinances 

Sec.  4.  If  the  contractor  refuses  or  neglects  to  remove  the 
slops  in  the  manner  as  provided  by  contract  and  nnder  the  regu- 
lations as  prescribed  by  the  Board,  he  shall  forfeit  and  pay  not 
less  than  ten  per  cent  of  the  amount  due  him.  Should  the  amount 
then  due  be  insufficient  to  cover  all  expense  caused  by  reason  of 
such  failure  to  comply  with  his  contract,  then,  in  that  event,  the 
bondfsmen  shall  be  responsible  for  any  deficiency  and  the  Board 
of  Health  shall  have  the  right  to  annul  said  contract. 

Sec.  5.  Whenever  the  contractor  fails  or  neglects  to  perform 
his  work  or  whenever  the  Board  of  Health  shall  have  annulled 
said  contract,  the  Board  of  Health  it  hereby  authorized  to  pro- 
vide by  private  contract  for  the  removal  of  slops.  All  contracts 
for  such  removal  shall  be  temporary,  and  only  until  a  public 
letting  can  be  had.  Such  private  contract  shall  contain  clauses 
that  one  months'  pay  be  always  kept  in  arrears  until  its  termin- 
ation;  that  for  neglect  of  removal  it  may  be  annulled  by  the 
Board  of  Health,  and  if  so  annulled,  whatever  pay  then  in  arrears 
and  due  shall  be  forfeited  by  the  contractor  and  the  city  shall  not 
be  liable  therefor. 

Sec.  6.  The  contract  for  the  removal  of  slops  shall  be  for  not 
more  than  the  term  of  three  years,  and  the  contractor  is  required 
to  enter  into  a  bond  with  the  city  in  the  penal  sum  of  five  thou- 
sand dollars,  with  not  less  than  two  good  securities,  owners  of 
unincumbered  real  estate  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  to  be  approved 
by  the  Mayor,  for  the  faithful  performance  of  his  contract.  The 
Board  of  Health  is  directed  to  deduct  ten  per  cent,  from  the 
amount  due  said  contractor  on  his  monthly  payment  until  the 
same  shall  amount  to  one  thousand  dollars,  which  sum  shall  be 
retained  until  the  full  completion  of  the  contract. 

Sec.  7.  The  Board  of  Health  is  authorized  to  certify  to  the 
Auditor,  on  or  before  the  tenth  of  each  month,  the  amount  due 
said  contractor,  and  the  Auditor  is  instructed  to  draw  his  warrant 
on  the  Treasurer  in  favor  of  said  contractor  for  the  same,  payable 
out  of  the  appropriation  for  the  removal  of  slops. 

Sec.  8.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  police  to  see  that  all  slops 
are  removed  from  the  premises  of  private  citizens,  and  any  failure 
on  the  part  of  the  slop  contractor  to  do  this  under  the  terms  of 
the  contract,  shall  at  once  be  reported  to  the  Health  Commis- 
sioner. 

Sec.  9.  Article  10,  chapter  12,  of  the  Revised  Ordinances  of 
the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  31,  1871,  is  hereby  re- 
pealed. 

[10,830.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  amendatory  of  ordinance  number  ten  thou- 
sand seven  hundred  and  fifty-seven. 


Governing  the  Health  Dejpartment.  47 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis, 
as  follows: 

Section  1.  Section  one  of  ordinance  nnmber  ten  thousand 
seven  hundred  and  fifty-seven  is  hereby  amended  to  read  as 
follows  :  I  On  the  first  Monday  of  April  and  October  of  each 
year  the  several  elected  and  appointed  ofiicers,  clerks,  employes, 
and  all  persons  holding  office  in  the  corporation  of  the  City  of  St. 
Louis,  shall  make  a  full  and  accurate  return  list  of  all  property  of 
whatever  kind  or  nature  in  their  said  office,  or  that  may  come  into 
their  possession  during  their  term  of  office,  or  that  comes  to  them 
in  any  way  after  they  have  become  qualified  and  taken  charge  of 
their  said  office  ;  and  which  return  list  shall  embrace,  in  tabular 
form,  the  name,  number,  kind  of  article,  for  what  purpose  used, 
C(jndition  and  full  description  and  general  remarks  attached  to  each 
entry  in  order  to  render  full  satisfaction  as  regards  the  same. 

Approved  August  20,  1878. 

[11,063.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  to  transfer  the  control  of  the  Morgue  from 
the  charge  of  the  Health  Commissioner  to  the  Coroner,  providing 
for  its  management,  the  appointment  of  its  officers  and  fixing  their 
salaries. 

WJiei'eas,  by  section  four  of  article  twelve  of  the  Charter  of  the 
City  of  St.  Louis,  it  is  provided  that  the  charge  of  the  Morgue 
shall  be  under  the  Health  Commissioner ;  and. 

Whereas,  it  is  provided  in  section  thirty-two  of  article  three  of 
the  Charter  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  that  the  Assembly  shall  have 
the^power,  by  a  vote  of  three-fourths  of  the  members  of  each 
House,  to  transfer  and  distribute  the  powers  and  duties,  in  part 
or  in  whole,  of  any  office  provided  for  in  the  Charter  to  another; 
and  it  being  the  opinion  of  the  Municipal  Assembly  that  the 
charge  and  control  of  the  Morgue  should  more  properly  belong 
to  the  office  of  Coroner;  therefore, 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the   City  of  St. 
Louis,  as  follows  : 

Section  1.  The.  control  and  management  of  the  Morgue  is 
hereby  transferred  from  the  charge  of  the  Health  Commissioner  to 
the  Coroner,  and  after  the  passage  of  this  ordinance  the  Health 
Commissioner  shall  relinquish,  and  the  Coroner  shall  assume,  the 
control  of  the  Morgue. 

Sec.  2.  The  Coroner,  by  and  with  the  approval  of  the  Mayor, 
shall  make  all  necessary  rules  for  the  government  of  the  Morgue. 


48  Laws   and   Ordinances 

Sec.  3.  The  Morgue  shall  be  in  charge  of  the  Superintendent, 
appointed  by  the  Coroner  and  approved  by  the  Mayor,  and  shall 
be  open  at  all  hours  of  the  day  and  night  for  the  reception  of 
bodies.  The  exhibition  hall  shall  be  open  daily  from  sunrise  to 
sunset,  when  a  body  is  in  the  Morgue  that  has  not  been  recognized. 

Sec.  4.  The  Superintendent  shall  have  full  charge  and  control 
of  the  Morgue  building  and  all  property  therein  contained,  and 
shall  keep  a  record-book  in  the  office  of  the  Morgue  in  which  citi- 
zens may  record  the  names  of  missing  friends  and  describe  their 
person  and  clothing,  and  give  the  address  to  which  information 
respecting  them  may  be  sent. 

Sec.  5.  All  bodies  brought  to  the  Morgue  shall  remain,  if 
they  are  not  recognized,  in  the  hall  of  exhibition  seventy-two 
hours,  or  longer  if  deemed  necessary  by  the  Coroner.  The 
clothing  shall  also  be  exhibited  near  the  body,  and  shall  remain 
exposed  twenty  days  longer  if  the  body  has  not  been  recognized, 
Bodies  when  identified  shall  be  immediately  withdrawn  from  ex- 
hibition and  placed  in  a  private  room  subject  to  the  act  of  the 
Coroner. 

Sec.  6.  On  the  first  day  of  each  month  the  Coroner  shall 
make  a  report  to  the  Health  Commissioner,  who  shall  present  the 
same  to  the  Board  of  Health  at  its  next  session,  giving  the  follow- 
ing details :  First — Date  of  reception  of  identified  bodies. 
Second — Name,  age,  profession  and  residence  of  deceased.  Third 
— Cause  of  death.  Fourth — Mode  of  death.  Fifth— Hour  of 
death.  Sixth — Place  of  death.  Seventh — By  whom  removed. 
Eighth — Name  of  undertaker.  Ninth — When  it  can  be  learned, 
the  place  where  the  body  has  been  buried. 

Sec.  7.  The  Coroner  shall  also  furnish  a  statement  of  bodies 
not  identified,  as  follows  :  First — A  succinct  description  of  the 
body  and  whether  male  or  female.  Second — Probable  age,  and 
whether  white  or  colored.  Third — Mode  of  death.  Fourth — 
Place  where  found. 

Sec.  8.  The  Coroner  shall  make  requisitions  on  the  Commis- 
sioner of  Supplies  for  all  articles  needed  for  the  Morgue,  but  said 
requisitions  must  in  all  cases  be  first  approved  by  the  Mayor. 
Whenever  any  repairs  are  needed  the  Coroner  shall  make  a  repair 
requisition  on  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Public  Improve- 
ments;  said  requisition  shall  first  be  approved  by  the  Mayor. 

Sec.  9.  The  Coronor  shall  cause  to  be  kept  in  suitable  books 
a  full  and  correct  account  of  all  the  expenses  of  the  Morgue. 
Before  any  money  is  paid  the  accounts  shall  be  examined  and  ap- 
proved by  the  Mayor. 

Sec.  10.  The  Coroner  may,  by  and  with  the  approval  of  the 
Mayor,  appoint  one  assistant  to  the  Superintendent. 


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Sec.  U.  The  salary  of  the  Superintendent  shall  be  nine  hun- 
dred dollars  per  annum,  payable  monthly.  The  salary  of  the 
assistant  shall  be  six  hundred  dollars,  payable  monthly. 

Approved  April  5,  1879. 

[10,320.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  in  relation  to  insane  persons  and  paupers, 
and  to  repeal  article  8,  chapter  12,  of  the  Revised  Ordinances  of 
the  City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  31,  1871. 

Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis, 
asfolloiDs: 

Section  1.  The  president,  directors  or  owners  of  any  rail- 
road, and  the  conductor  in  charge  of  any  railroad  car,  or  train  of 
railroad  cars,  or  the  master  or  person  in  charge  of  any  steamboat 
or  other  vessel,  or  the  owner  or  driver  of  any  wagon  or  vehicle, 
who  shall  bring  into  the  city  of  St.  Louis  a  person  or  persons 
who  are  insane  or  paupers,  who  are  likely  to  become  a  charge  to 
the  city,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  on  convic- 
tion thereof  be  fined  not  less  than  twenty-five  nor  more  than  three 
hundred  dollars  for  each  and  every  oifense,  in  addition  to  which 
penalty  the  person  so  ofl:ending  shall  be  required  to  enter  into 
bonds  before  the  Police  Justice  of  not  less  than  ^yq  hundred  nor 
more  than  one  thousand  dollars,  to  defriay  the  expenses  of  the 
insane  or  paupers  thus  brought,  so  long  as  they  remain  in  the  city. 

Sec.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  Police  Commis- 
sioners to  instruct  the  police  to  report  to  the  Chief  of  Police  any 
violation  of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Marshal  or  policemen, 
whenever  complaint  is  made  before  the  Police  Justice  of  a  viola- 
tion of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance,  to  arrest  the 
offender  forthwith,  and  bring  such  oflTender  without  delay  .before 
the  Police  Justice  for  trial. 

Sec.  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Marshal  and  police  if  any 
lunatic,  idiot  or  persons  of  unsound  mind  be  found  by  them  with- 
in the  City  of  St.  Louis,  unprotected  by  guardian  or  friend,  to 
take  such  person  in  custody  and  give  notice  thereof  forthwith  to 
the  Board  of  Police  Commissioners  and  the  President  thereof  shall 
immediately  notify  the  Health  Commissioner,  whose  duty  it  shall 
be  to  take  charge  of  such  idiot,  lunatic  or  insane  person  and  place 
such  person  in  the  Insane  Asylum  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  and  to 
report  to  the  Board  of  Health  his  action  thereon  and  all  facts  and 
information  regarding  such  idiot,  lunatic  or  insane  person  that 
may  come  to  his  knowledge. 


50  Laws  and  Ordinances, 

Sec.  5.  Article  8,  chapter  12  of  the  Kevised  Ordinance  of  the 
City  of  St.  Louis,  approved  March  thirty-first,  eighteen  hundred 
and  seventy-one,  is  hereby  repealed. 

Approved  July  7,  1877. 

[10,348.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  establishing  and  regulating  the  Poor  House 
of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  and  providing  for  the  management 
thereof. 

Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  bt.  Louis, 
as  follows ; 

Section  1 .  The  building  known  as  the  County  Poor  House, 
situated  on  Arsenal  street,  and  acquired  by  the  City  of  St.  Louis 
by  the  ratification  of  the  Scheme  and  Charter,  is  hereby  establish- 
ed, and  shall  be  known  as  the  Poor  House  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis, 
and  shall  be  kept  for  the  reception  and  accommodation  of  the 
indigent  and  decrepit  persons  who  from  physical  inability  or  from 
any  other  cause  are  incapacitated  from  supporting  themselves,  and 
such  only  shall  be  placed  therein  by  competent  authority. 

Sec.  2.  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  have  the  general 
supervision  and  management  of  the  Poor  House,  and  shall  exer- 
cise a  general  control  over  all  the  officers  and  employes  connected 
with  or  employed  at  the  same.  He  shall  make  all  necessary 
rules  and  regulations  for  the  government  and  management  of  the 
Poor  House,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Health.  He 
shall  appoint  all  assistants,  except  the  Superintendent,  determine 
the  number  to  be  employed,  whether  male  or  female,  and  shall  fix 
their  daily  compensation,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Mayor. 
He  shall  examine  all  accounts  against  the  Poor  House,  and  if  he 
finds  them  correct,  shall  certify  and  state  upon  them  specifically 
by  what  authority  the  account  was  incurred.  All  such  accounts, 
when  so  certified,  shall  be  presented  to  the  Comptroller,  and  if  he 
finds  them  correct  and  properly  authorized,  he  shall  so  certify  up- 
on them,  and  the  Auditor  shall  audit  the  same  and  draw  his  war- 
rant therefor  upon  the  Treasurer,  and  charge  the  same  to  the  fund 
appropriated  for  the  maintenance  of  the  Poor  House. 

Sec.  3.  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  prescribe  the  condi- 
tions for  admission  to  and  discharge  from  the  Poor  House,  subject 
to  the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Health,  but  no  person  shall  be 
admitted  to  the  Poor  House  as  an  inmate  who  shall  not  have  re- 
sided in  the  City  of  St.  Louis  at  least  one  year  next  preceding  the 
date  of  application  for  admission. 


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Sec.  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Health  Commissioner  to 
make  such  rules  and  regulations  as  shall  be  approved  by  the 
Board  of  Health  as  will  establish  a  system  whereby  the  persons 
admitted  to  the  Poor  House  shall  respectively  earn  what  they  re- 
ceive to  the  extent  of  their  ability  ;  Provided,  that  this  section 
shall  not  be  so  construed  as  to  exclude  from  the  Poor  House  such 
indigent  persons  entitled  to  admission  asnnay  be  unable  to  work ; 
Provided y  also,  that  no  minor  in  good  health,  over  eight  years  of 
age  shall  be  maintained  at  the  Poor  House ;  but  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  Health  Commissioner  and  Board  of  Health  to  make 
suitable  provisions  for  such  minors  whereby  they  shall  be  placed 
in  some  family  until  they  ai-rive  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years. 

Sec.  5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Health  Commissioner  to  re- 
port to  the  Municipal  Assemby,  at  its  first  session  in  each  year,  a 
particular  and  detailed  account  of  the  affairs  of  the  Poor  House, 
together  with  such  suggestions  or  recommendations  as  may  to  him 
seem  proper. 

Approved  August  10,  1877. 

[10,359.] 

AN  OEDINANCE  establishing  and  regulating  the  office  of 
Superintendent  of  the  Poor  House,  prescribing  his  duties  and 
fixing  his  bond  and  salary. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Asse7nbly  of  the  City  of  /St. 
Louis,  as  follows  : 

Section  1.  There  is  hereby  created  and  established  the  office 
of  Superintendent  of  the  Poor  House. 

Sec.  2.  The  Superintendent  of  the  Poor  House  shall  be  ap- 
pointed by  the  Mayor  and  confirmed  by  the  Council,  and  shall 
hold  his  office  for  four  years,  and  until  his  successor  is  appointed 
and  qualified.  Provided,  that  the  first  appointment,  under  this 
ordinance,  shall  be  for  two  years  only. 

Sec.  3.  The  Superintendent  of  the  Poor  House  shall  have  the 
general  management  of  the  Poor  House,  and  control  of  all  em- 
ployes thereat.  He  shall  have  power  to  suspend  or  discharge  any 
employe  for  neglect  of  duty  or  gross  violation  of  the  rules  and 
regulations.  When  he  shall  so  suspend  or  discharge  any  one,  he 
shall  immediately  report  the  fact  of  such  suspension  or  discharge, 
and  the  cause  thereof,  to  the  Board  of  Health,  which  shall  take 
such  action  on  the  matter  as  shall  to  it  seem  proper.  He  shall 
execute  and  carry  out  all  rules  and  regulations  which  may  be  made 
by  the  Health  Commissioner,  approved  by  the  Board  of  Health, 
and  shall  be  responsible  for  the  care  and  welfare  of  the  inmates 
of  the  Poor  House. 


52  '  Laws  and  Ordinances 

Sec.  4,  The  Superintendent  of  the  Poor  House  shall  give 
bond  to  the  City  of  St.  Louis  in  the  sum  of  ten  thousand  dollars, 
conditioned  upon  the  faithful  discharge  of  his  duties  and  account- 
ing for  all  property  of  the  city  which  may  come  into  his  possession 
or  under  his  control.  Said  bond  shall  l)e  secured  by  two  or  more 
sureties,  who  shall  be  owners  of  unincumbered  real  estate  in  the 
City  of  St.  Louis,  and  shall  be  approved  by  the  Mayor  and 
Council. 

Sec.  5.  The  Superintendent  shall  possess  all  the  qualifications 
prescribed  in  section  ten,  article  four,  of  the  Charter.  He  shall 
reside  at  the  Poor  House,  and  shall  receive  his  board  and  washing 
at  the  Poor  House.  He  shall  devote  all  his  time  to  the  discharge 
of  the  duties  of  his  office. 

Sec.  6.  The  salary  of  the  Superintendent  of  the  Poor  House 
shall  be  at  the  rate  of  one  thousand  dollars  per  annum,  payable 
monthly,  whi(^h  sum  shall  be  in  full  for  all  services  of  an  official 
nature. 

Approved  August  14,  1877. 

[10,420.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  amendatory  of  ordinance  number  ten  thou- 
sand three  hundred  and  forty-eight,  entitled  '*An  ordinance 
establishing  and  regulating  the  Poor  House  of  the  City  of  St. 
Louis,  and  providing  for  the  management  thereof." 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  St. 
Louis,  as  follows: 

Section  1.  Amend  section  two  to  read  as  follows  : 
Sec.  2.  The  Health  Commissioner  shall  have  the  general 
supervision  and  management  of  the  Poor  House,  and  shall  exerr 
cise  a  general  control  over  all  the  officers  and  employes  connected 
with  or  employed  at  the  same.  He  shall  make  all  necessary  rules 
and  regulations  for  the  government  and  management  of  the  Poor 
House  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Health.  He  shall 
appoint  all  assistants  except  the  Superintendent,  determining  the 
number  to  be  employed,  whether  male  or  fi^male,  and  shall  fix 
their  daily  (U)mi)ensation,  subject  to  the  a})pr()val  of  the  Mayor. 
He  shall  examine  all  accounts  against  the  Poor  House,  and  if  lie 
finds  them  correct  shall  so  certif}'.  All  such  accounts,  when  so 
certified,  shall  be  audited  and  paid  as  provided  by  charter. 
Approved  November  24,  1877. 


Governing  the  Health  Department.  53 

[10,538.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  regulating  the  cutting  of  ice  from  the 
ponds,  sink-holes  and  sloughs    within   the    limits    of    the    city. 

Whereas,  an  emergency  has  arisen,  there  being  no  ordinance  in 
existence  regulating  the  cutting  of  ice  within  the  limits  of  the 
city,  therefore  this  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  full  force 
from  and  after  its  passage. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  Cit^  of  St, 
Louis,  as  follows: 

Section  1.  No  person,  tirm  or  corporation  shall  cut  or  take 
any  ice  from  any  pond,  sink-hole  or  slough  within  the  limits  of 
city  without  first  having  obtained  a  permit  from  the  Health  Com- 
missioner so  to  do. 

Sec.  2.  Except  where  it  may  otherwise  be  provided  for  in 
this  ordinance,  the  Health  Commissioner  shall  only  grant  permits 
to  cut  or  take  ice  from  the  ponds,  sink-holes  or  sloughs  within  the 
limits  of  the  city,  when  he  is  satisfied  that  said  ice  cut  from  said 
ponds,  sink-holes  or  sloughs  is  not  to  be  used,  sold  or  given  away 
for  drinking  purposes,  but  that  the  ice  taken  from  such  ponds, 
sink-holes  or  sloughs  is  to  be  only  used  for  the  cooling  of  articles, 
and  for  no  other  purpose  whatever. 

Sec.  3.  Any  person  desiring  to  cut  ice  from  any  pond,  sink- 
hole or  slough  within  the  limits  of  the  city,  shall  make  an  appli- 
cation to  the  Health  Commissioner  for  a  permit  to  do  so,  stating 
the  locality  of  the  pond,  sink-hole  or  slough  from  which  the  ice 
is  proposed  to  be  cut,  and  the  purpose  for  which  the  ice  is  to  be 
used  and  the  locality  within  the  city  where  the  ice  is  to  be  stored. 

Sec.  4.  Before  the  Health  Commissioner  shall  issue  any  such 
permit  he  shall  require  the  parties  to  file  a  good  and  sufiicient 
bond  in  the  sum  of  two  thousand  dollars,  with  two  or  more  good 
securities,  to  be  approved  by  the  Mayor;  said  bond  shall  provide 
that  the  ice  cut  from  the  pond,  sink-h6le  or  slough,  for  which  a 
permit  has  been  granted  by  the  Health  Commissioner,  shall  not 
be  sold  or  used  by  him  or  them  for  drinking  purposes,  and  that 
it  is  to  be  stored  in  the  locality  mentioned  in  the  permit,  and  that 
any  violation  of  the  provisions  and  stipulations  as  provided  for  in 
the  permit  shall  work  a  forfeiture  of  the  bond  and  the  same  shall 
be  collected  and  paid  into  the  Treasury  of  the  city  for  the  benefit 
of  the  City  of  St.  Louis. 

Sec.  5.  All  permits  to  cut  ice  as  provided  for  by  the  ordi- 
nance shall  be  signed  by  the  Health  Commissioner,  attested  by 
the  Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Health  and  countersigned  by  the  City 
Register  and  Comptroller,  and  for  all   such  permits  the  Health 


54  Laws   and  Ordinances 

Commissioner  shall  charge  a  fee  of  one   dollar,  which  he  shall 
account  for  and  pay  into  the  City  Treasury. 

Sec.  6.  No  permit  shall  he  issued  to  cover  more  than  one 
block  in  the  old  city  limits,  nor  more  than  one  acre  in  the  new  or 
extended  limits. 

Sec.  7.  The  Health  Commissioner  may  at  any  time,  by  and 
with  the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Health,  recall  such  permit  if 
any  of  the  rules  or  orders  of  the  Health  Commissioner  are  vio- 
lated. 

Sec.  8.  It  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  police  officers  to 
arrest  any  person  found  cutting  or  removing  imy  ice  from  any 
pond,  sink-hole  or  slough,  within  the  limits  of  the  city,  who  have 
not  first  obtained  a  permit  from  the  Health  Commissioner  as  pro- 
vided for  in  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  9.  Whenever  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  desire  to 
cut  ice  or  to  grant  or  sell  the  privilege  of  cutting  ice  from  any 
pond  or  sink-hole  situated  on  their  own  property,  and  when  they 
believe  that  the  ice  from  said  pond  or  sink-hole  is  clean  and  pure, 
and  fit  and  proper  to  be  used  for  other  purposes  than  the  cooling 
of  articles,  they  shall  make  application  to  the  Health  Commis- 
sioner for  a  permit  to  do  so,  and  if  upon  examination  by  the 
Health  Commissioner,  or  by  a  proper  officer  authorized  by  the 
Health  Commissioner,  to  make  the  examination,  the  Health  Com- 
missioner is  satisfied  that  the  ice  proposed  to  be  cut  is  clean,  and 
fit  and  proper  to  be  used  for  other  purposes  besides  the  cooling  of 
articles,  he  shall  grant  a  permit  to  the  parties  applying  to  cut  said 
ice ;  but  said  permit  shall  state  where  the  ice  is  to  be  stored,  but 
when  the  permits  are  granted  as  provided  for  in  this  section  no 
bond  shall  be  required  of  the  parties,  but  a  fee  for  the  permit 
shall  be  charged  as  provided  for  in  section  five  of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  10.  All  parties  bringing  ice  into  the  City  of  St.  Louis 
from  a  less  distance  than  ten  miles  from  this  city  shall  file  a  state- 
ment with  the  Health  Commissioner,  which  statement  shall  be 
sworn  to ;  said  statement  shall  specify  the  locality  from  which  the 
ice  has  been  brought  and  when  cut,  and  if  in  the  opinion  of  the 
Health  Commissioner  said  ice  is  only  fit  for  the  cooling  of  articles 
he  shall  require  said  parties  to  give  a  bond  and  comply  with  all 
the  provisions  as  provided  for  in  section  four  of  this  ordinance. 
If  in  the  opinion  of  the  Health  Conmiissioner  said  ice  is  clean  and 
fit  and  proper  to  be  used  for  any  purpose  whatever,  he  shall  grant 
a  permit  to  such  parties  in  the  same  manner  as  provided  for  in 
section  nine  of  this  ordinance.  Any  person  bringing  or  storing 
ice  within  the  limits  of  the  city  without  having  obtained  a  permit 
so  to  do,  as  provided  for  in  this  section,  shall  he  deemed  guilty  of 
a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  fined  not 
less  than  fifty  nor  more  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  to  be 


Governing  the  Health  Department,  55 

recovered  as  in  all  the  cases  of  misdemeanor,  before  any  court 
having  competent  jurisdiction. 

Sec.  11..  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation  found  guilty  of 
violating  this  orclinance  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor, 
and  upon  conviction  shall  be  lined  not  less  than  fifty  nor  more 
than  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  for  each  and  every  violation  of 
this  ordinance,  to  be  recovered  as  in  all  other  cases  of  misde- 
meanor before  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction. 

Approved  February  1,  1878. 

[10,377.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  establishing  ancT  fixing  the  salaries  of  the 
officers  and  employes  of  the  Health  Department  not  heretofore 
fixed  by  ordinance. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  St, 
8t,  Louis,  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  several  officers  and  employes  of  the  Health 
Department,  hereinafter  named,  shall  receive  the  following  com- 
pensation per  annum,  payable  monthly,  for  their  services,  to-wit : 
Steward,  Insane  Asylum,  one  thousand  dollars;  clerk  at  the  City 
Hospital,  six  hundred  dollars;  clerk  at  the  Insane  Asylum,  five 
hundred  dollars;  steward  of  the  Female  Hospital,  who  shall  also 
/l)erform  the  duties  of  clerk  and  storekeeper,  eight  hundred  dol- 
lars ;  eiis^ineer  of  the  City  Hospital,  nine  hundred  dollars ;  en- 
gineer of  the  Insane  Asylum,  nine  hundred  dollars  ;  engineer  of 
the  Poor  House,  nine  hundred  dollars ;  engineer  of  the  Female 
Hospital,  seven  hundred  dollars;  all  of  whom  shall  be  licensed 
and  practical  engineers;  firemen  at  the  City  Hospital,  Insane 
Asylum,  Poor  House,  and  Female  Hospital,  four  hundred  and 
twenty  dollars  each  ;  assistant  engineers  at  the  City  Hospital, 
Insane  As3'lum,  Poor  House,  and  Female  Hospital  at  the  rate  of 
six  hundred  dollars  each  for  the  time  for  which  they  are  employed, 
all  of  whom  shall  be  licensed  and  practical  engineers;  carpenters 
at  the  City  Hospital,  Insane  Asylum,  Poor  House,  and  Female 
Hospital,  live  hundred  and  forty  dollars  each;  druggist  at  the 
City  Hospital,  six  hundred  dollars  ;  druggist  at  the  Insane  Asylum, 
four  hundred  and  twenty  dollars  ;  druggist  at  the  Female  Hospital, 
four  hundred  and  twenty  dollars ;  an  assistant  physician  at  the 
Poor  House,  who  shall  act  as  the  druggist,  five  hundred  dollars  ; 
ward-master  at  the  City  Hospital,  four  hundred  and  twenty  dol- 
lars ;  whitener  and  plasterer  at  the  City  Hospital,  four  hundred 
and  eighty  dollars ;  dining-room  master  and  storekeeper  at  the 
City  Hospital,  four  hundred  and  twenty  dollars  ;  hall-master  at 
the  City  Hospital,  four  hundred  and  twenty  dollars  ;  nurses  in  the 


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56  Laws   and  Ordinances 

male  department  at  the  Insane  Asylum,  three  hundred  and  thirty- 
six  dollars  each  ;  nurses  in  the  female  department  at  the  Insane 
Asylum,  three  hundred  dollars  each  ;  nurses  at  the  City  Hospital, 
Female  Hospital  and  Poor  House,  two  hundred  and  forty  dollars 
each ;  clerk  at  the  Poor  House,  who  shall  also  perform  the  duties 
of  storekeeper,  six  hundred  dollars ;  one  chief  cook  at  the  City 
Hos.pital,  Insane  Asylum  and  Poor  House,  six  hundred  dollars  each  ; 
cooks  at  the  Female  Hospital,  three  hundred  dollars  each  ;  one 
chief  seamstress  at  the  City  Hospital,  Insane  Asylum,  Poor  House 
and  Female  Hospital,  three  hundred  dollars  each;  male  watch- 
men at  the  Insane  Asylum,  four  hundred  and  forty  dollars  each  ; 
female  watch  at  the  Insane  Asylum,  three  l)undred  and  sixty  dollars 
each  ;  watchman  at  the  Female  Hospital,  four  hundred  and  twenty 
dollars  ;  female  night  nurse  at  the  Female  Hospital,  three  hundred 
dollars  ;  night  watchman  and  nurse  at  the  Poor  House,  five  hundred 
and  forty  dollars  ;  one  chief  laundress  at  the  City  Hospital,  Female 
Hospital  and  Poor  House,  two  hundred  and  forty  dollars  each  ;  one 
chief  laundress  at  the  Insane  Asylum,  three  hundred  dollars ; 
assistant  laundresses  at  the  Insane  Asylum,  two  hundred  and  forty 
dollars  each;  and  at  the  City  and  Female  Hospitals,  one  hundred 
and  eighty  dollars  each ;  one  hostler  at  the  Insane  Asylum  and  at 
the  Female  Hospital,  three  hundred  dollars  each ;  male  attendants 
in  the  insane  wards  at  the  Poor  House,  three  hundred  and  thirty 
dollars  each  ;  female  attendants  in  the  insane  wards  at  the  Poor 
House,  three  hundred  dollars  each  ;  driver  of  the  dead  wagon  and 
small-pox  ambulance,  five  hundred  and  forty  dollars ;  ambulance 
driver  of  the  wngon  for  the  Female  Hospital,  Insane  Asylum  and 
Poor  House,  the  duty  to  be  performed  by  the  one  person,  five 
hundred  and  forty  dollars  ;  driver  of  the  provision  wagon  from  the 
Poor  House  to  or  from  any  public  institution,  four  hundred  and 
twenty  dollars  ;  and  all  drivers  of  ambulances  and  all  other  wagons 
shall  be  required  to  assist  in  taking  care  of  their  horses,  and 
vehicles,  if  necessary ;  male  hall-masters  in  the  Insane  Asylum 
four  hundred  and  twenty  dollars  each ;  hall  superintendents  in  the 
female  department  at  the  Insane  Asylum  throe  hundred  and  sixty 
dollars  each  ;  matrons  at  the  Insane  Asylum  and  Poor  House,  three 
hundred  dollars  each ;  assistant  cook  at  the  City  Hospital,  two 
hundred  and  forty  dollars,  and  the  chief  cook  at  the  City  Hospital 
shall  superintend  the  cooking  for  the  officers  thereof;  male  and 
female  help  at  the  City  Hospital,  Insane  Asylum,  Poor  House  and 
Female  Hospital,  one  hundred  and  eighty  dollars  each ;  gardeners 
at  the  Insane  Asylum,  Poor  House  and  Female  Hospital  three 
hundred  dollars  each  ;  steward  of  the  Quarantine  and  Small-pox 
Hospital,  the  duty  to  be  perforriied  l)y  one  man,  six  hundred 
dollars ;  male  nurse  at  the  Small-pox  Hospital  three  hundred 
and  sixty  dollars ;  female  nurse  at  the  Small-pox  Hospital  three 


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Governing  the  Health  Department.  57 

Imi.uitid  dollars ;  watchman  at  Quaiautiiie,  three  hundred  and 
sixty  dollars  ;  bakers  at  Poor  House,  fiye  hundred  and  forty  dollars 
each  ;  two  assistant  physicians  at  the  Insane  Asylum,  three  hun- 
dred dollars  each.  All  the  above  named  officers  and  employes 
shall  receive,  in  addition  to  their  salaries  as  mentioned  in  section 
one  of  this  ordinance,  their  board  and  washing  in  the  institutions 
in  which  they  are  employed. 

Sec.  2.  The  following  officers  and  employes  of  the  Health 
Department  hereinafter  named  shall  receive  the  following  com- 
j)ensation  per  annum,  payable  monthly,  for  their  services,  to-wit : 
One  assistant  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  Board  of  Health  and  Health 
Commissioner,  one  thousand  dollars ;  one  record  clerk  in  the 
Health  Commissioner's  Office,  nine  hundred  dollars;  sanitary 
officers,  in  the  Health  Commissioner's  Office,  one  at  twelve 
hundred  dollars  and  three  at  nine  hundred  dollars  each,  one 
ambulance  driver  for  the  City  Dispeysary,  seven  hundred  and 
twenty  dollars  ;  one  Superintendent'  of  the  Morgue,  nine  hundred 
dolfJtrs  ;  one  assistant  at  the  Morgue,  shall  also  be  the  driver  of  the 
ambulance  for  the  Morgue,  six  hundred  dollars  ;  night  watchman 
and  nurse  at- the  City  Hospital,  seven  hundred  and  twenty  dollars  ; 
but  none  of  the  officers  or  employes  mentioned  in  this  section  of 
this  ordinance  shall  receive  board  or  washing  in  any  o*f  the  city 
institutions. 

Approved  October  3,  1877. 

[10,314.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  establishing  the  office  of  Commissioner  of 
Supplies,  regulating  its  management  and  the  manner  of  purchasing 
all  articles  needed  by  the  several  departments  of  the  City  of  St. 
Louis  ;  defining  the  duties  of  the  Commissioner,  and  fixing  his 
salary  and  bond. 

Whereas^  An  emergency  exists,  there  being  no  ordinance  now 
in  existence  establishing  the  office  of  Commissioner  of  Supplies, 
defining  the  duties  of  said  Commissioner,  or  fixing  his  salary  and 
bond  ;  and 

Whereas^  The  Charter  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  in  section 
twenty-nine,  article  four,  provides  that  all  articles  needed  by  the 
city  in  its  several  departments  shall  be  purchased  by  the  Commis- 
sioner of  Supplies,  therefore  this  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and 
be  in  full  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 

Be  it   ordained  by   the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  St. 
Louis ^  as  folloivs: 

Section  1.  There  is  hereby  created  and  established  the  office 
of  Commissioner  of  Supplies,  who  shall  hold   his  office  for  the 


58  Laws   and  Ordinances 

term  of  two  years,  by  virtue  of  his  first  appointment  under  this 
ordinance,  and  for  four  years  by  virtue  of  subsequent  appoint- 
ments thereafter  and  until  his  successor  is  duly  appointed  and 
qualified.  The  Commissioner  of  Supplies  shall  be  appointed  by 
the  Mayor  with  the  approval  of  the  Council ;  he  shall  be  a  citizen 
of  the  United  States  ;  he  shall  have  been  a  resident  of  the  City 
of  St.  Louis  at  least  three  years  next  preceding  his  appointment ; 
he  shall  receive  a  salary  of  thirty -five  hundred  dollars  a  year, 
payable  monthly,  and  shall  give  a  bond  of  fifty  thousand  dollars, 
with  not  less  than  three  good  securities  who  shall  be  holders  of 
unincumbered  real  estate  within  the  City  of  St.  Louis  ;  said  bond 
to  be  approved  by  the  Mayor  and  Council.  The  condition  of  said 
bond  shall  be  that  said  Commissioner  shall  honestly  and  faithfully 
execute  and  perform  the  duties  of  his  office  as  prescribed  by  law 
and  ordinances;  that  he  will  not,  directly  or  indirectly,  be  in 
an}'^  manner  interested  in  the  sale  of  any  article  to  the  City  of  St. 
Louis  ;  that  he  will  not  directly  or  indirectly,  receive  any  bribe, 
gift  or  consideration  of  any  kind  from  any  person  or  persons  who 
have  been,  are  now,  or  likely  to  be,  engaged  through  his  depart- 
ment in  furnishing  any  supplies  or  selling  any  article  to  the  City 
of  St.  Louis. 

Sec.  2.  The  Commissioner  of  Supplies  shall  purchase  all  arti- 
cles needed  by  the  city  in  its  several  departments,  in  such  manner 
and  under  such  regulations  as  may  be  provided  by  ordinance.  He 
shall  purchase  all  articles,  so  far  as  practicable,  by  advertising  for 
proposals.  All  i)urchases  made  by  him  without  advertising  for 
proposals  shall  be  approved  by  the  Comptroller  before  the  same 
shall  become  binding  on  the  city.  In  advertising  for  proposals  to 
furnish  supplies,  quantity  and  quality  of  all  articles  shall  be  fully 
stated,  and  any  bidder  may  bid  for  any  one  article  named.  The 
award  for  each  article  shall  in  all  cases  be  made  to  the  lowest 
bidder  therefor.  The  Commissioner  of  Supplies  shall  furnish  to 
the  bidders  printed  blanks,  which  shall  be  filled  up  by  the  bidders 
with  the  price  of  the  article  to  be  furnished,  and  shall,  in  specify- 
ing the  quantity  and  quality  of  any  article,  recite  the  advertise- 
ment. AH  bids  shall  be  sealed  and  opened  at  an  hour  and  place 
to  be  stated  in  the  advertisement  for  proposals,  in  the  presence  of 
as  many  of  the  bidders  as  may  desire  to  be  present,  and  shall 
be  subject  to  the  inspection  of  bidders.  All  bids  having  any 
alteration  or  erasure  upon  them  shall  be  rejected.  The  Commis- 
sioner of  Supplies  shall  reserve  the  right  to  reject  any  and  all 
bids.  All  contracts  shall  be  approved  by  the  Mayo?  before  they 
shall  become  binding  on  the  city. 

Sec.  3.  The  Commissioner  of  Supplies  shall,  in  the  month  of 
June  of  each  year,  advertise  for  proposals  and  enter  into  contract 
on  the  part  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  for  furnishing,  for  Che  period 


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of  oue  year,  all  fuel,  milk  and  ice  that  may  be  required  for  the 
use  of  the  City  Hospital,  Insane  Asylum,  Poor  House,  Female 
Hospital,  Workl^use,  Jail,  House  of  Refuge,  City  Hall,  Court 
House,  Fire  Engine  Houses  and  other  city  offices ;  the  articles  to 
be  delivered  as  required,  from  time  to  time,  at  the  different  insti- 
tutions and  departments  of  the  city,  and  he  shall  require  a  good 
and  sufficient  bond  for  the  faithful  performance  of  said  contracts, 
which  shall  be  approved  by  the  Mayor. 

Sec.  4.  The  Commissioner  of  Supples  shall,  in  the  month  of 
June  of  each  3^ear  and  every  three  months  thereafter,  advertise 
for  proposals  and  enter  into  contract  on  the  part  of  the  City  of 
St.  Louis  for  furnishing  for  the  period  of  three  months  all  meat, 
butter,  lard,  fish,  eggs,  poultry,  bread,  gasoline,  flour,  corn  meal, 
hay,  corn,  oats  and  ground  feed  required  for  the  use  of  the  Health 
Department,  Workhouse,  House  of  Refuge,  Jail,  Fire  Depart- 
ment, and  all  other  departments  ;  the  articles  to  be  delivered  as 
required  from  time  to  time  at  the  different  institutions  and  depart- 
ments of  the  city,  and  he  shall  require  a  good  and  sufficient  bond 
for  the  faithful  performance  of  said  contracts  subject  to  the 
approval  of  the  Mayor. 

Sec.  5.  All  perishable  articles,  such  as  fruit  and  vegetables, 
that  may  be  required  for  the  use  of  the  Hospitals,  Insane 
Asylum,  Poor  House,  Workhouse,  and  House  of  Refuge,  shall 
be  purchased  by  the  Commissioner  of  Supplies  at  the  best  possible 
rates  on  the  requisition  signed  by  the  proper  officer  in  charge  of 
the  above  named  city  departments  ;  all  of  which  purchases  shall 
be  approved  by  the  Comptroller  before  they  shall  be  binding  on 
the  city. 

Sec.  6.  Whenever  any  institution  or  department  of  the  city 
through  the  officer  in  charge  thereof  shall  make  a  requisition  on 
the  (Commissioner  of  Supplies  for  any  bedding,  household  goods, 
furniture,  dry  goods,  clothing,  tinware,  hardware,  harness,  ma- 
chinery, tools,  stoves,  carpets,  building  material,  surgical  instru- 
ments, surveying  instruments,  stationery  and  books ;  when  the 
amount  to  be  purchased  will  exceed  the  sum  of  one  hundred 
dollars  for  any  one  article,  the  Commissioner  of  Supplies  will 
advertise  for  proposals  and  enter  into  contract  on  the  part  of  the 
City  of  St.  Louis  for  the  furnishing  of  such  articles ;  but  other- 
wise the  Commissioner  of  Supplies  shall  purchase  such  articles  at 
the  best  possible  market  rates,  on  the  requisition  signed  by  the 
officer  in  charge  of  the  department  where  such  articles  are  needed. 

Sec.  7.  In  the  months  of  January,  ApriH  July  and  October 
the  Commissioner  of  Supplies  shall  give  public  notice  in  the  news- 
papers doing  the  city  printing,  that  on  the  fifth  day  from  the  date 
of  the  notice  he  will  receive  proposals  for  furnishing  the  City 
Hospital,  Female  Hospital,  Insane  Asylum,  Small-Pox  Hospital, 


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Poor  House,  Workhouse,  House  of  Refuge  and  Jail  with  such 
groceries  and  drugs,  not  otherwise  contracted  for,  as  may  be 
needed  for  the  use  of  said  institutions  duringfcthe  next  three 
months  ;  and  for  the  information  of  bidders  he  shall  have  prepared 
printed  lists  of  the  articles,  and  quantity  required  for  each  insti- 
tution. The  requisitions  for  groceries  and  drugs  for  each  institu- 
tion shall  each  be  separate.  ^ 

Sec.  8.  The  Commissioner  of  Supplies  shall  purchase  the 
engines  and  other  apparatus  for  the  suppression  or  extinguishment 
of  fire  and  protection  of  life  and  property,  that  may  be  needed  by 
the  Fire  Department,  when  the  purchase  of  such  articles  are 
recommended  by  the  Chief  of  the  Fire  Department  and  approved 
by  the  Mayor ;  Pi^ovided,  however,  that  the  Municipal  Assembly 
shall  have  by  ordinance  provided  for  and  appropriated  the  funds 
to  meet  said  purchase. 

Sec.  9.  The  Commissioner  of  Supplies  shall  purchase  all 
horses,  mules,  wagons,  carts,  ambulances  and  buggies,  that  mixj 
be  needed  for  the  several  Institutions  on  Departments  Of  the  city  ; 
Provided i  that  before  making  said  purchases,  that  the  requisitions 
for  same  shall  be  signed  by  the  officer  in  charge  of  the  depart- 
ment where  such  articles  are  needed,  and  approved  by  the  Mayor. 

Sec.  10.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Commissioner  of  Supplies 
to  personally  examine  the  articles  that  have  been  purchas  d.  by 
him  and  delivered  to  the  several  Institutions  or  Departments  of 
the  city,  and  see  if  the  said  articles  are  of  the  standard  kind  and 
quality  as  required  by  the  terms  of  sale  ;  where  he  shall  find  in- 
ferior articles  have  been  delivered  he  shall  at  once  reject  all  such 
articles,  and  shall  not  certify  the  bill  for  the  same  for  payment, 
and  report  all  the  facts  to  the  Mayor.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Commissioner  of  Supplies,  whenever  supplies  of  an^^  sort  are 
furnished  to  any  Institution  or  Department  of  the  City  Govern- 
ment to  send  with  such  supplies  a  memorandum  stating  the  quan 
tity,  quality,  weight  or  measure  and  price  of  each  article  sent, 
which  memorandum  shall  be  returned  to  the  Commissioner  of 
Supplies  with  the  indorsement  thereon  of  the  Superintendent  or 
other  person  in  charge  of  the  Department  or  Institution  as  to  its 
correctness,  ex(;ept  in  respect  to  the  price  thereof.  The  Com- 
missioner of  Supplies  shall  keep  all  such  memorandums  or  re- 
ceipts as  vouchers  for  any  payments  he  may  make,  either  for 
goods  purchased  in  the  open  market  or  under  advertisement. 

Sec.  11.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Commissioner  of  Supplies 
to  approve,  if  corrgct,  all  bills  for  supplies  furnished  the  city, 
whether  purchased  under  any  contract  with  the  city  or  otherwise. 
If  a  bill  is  made  under  any  contract,  the  Commissioner  of  Sup- 
plies shall  state  on  the  bill  the  date  of  the  contract  and  the  date 
of  the  approval  by  the  Mayor.     If  the   bill  is  not  made  under 


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any  contract  it  shall  be  approved  by  the  Comptroller  and  a  certi- 
fied copy  of  the  requisition  for  the  articles  mentioned  in  said  bill 
shall  be  attached  to  the  same.  The  Auditor  shall  not  audit  and 
allow  any  bills  for  supplies  unless  the  foregoing  provisions  are 
complied  with. 

^EC.  12.  The  Commissioner  of  supplies,  by  and  with  the  con- 
sent and  approval  of  the  Mayor,  shall  employ  such  clerks  and 
assistants  that  may  be  needed  for  the  proper  management  of  his 
department. 

Sec.  13.  The  Commissioner  of  Supplies  shall  require  all  par- 
ties contracting  through  his  department  to  give  good  and  suffi- 
cient bond  for  the  faithful  performance  of  said  contracts,  to  be 
approved  by  the  Mayor,  and  all  contracts  shall  contain  a  clause 
that  the  articles  to  be  furnished  are  to  be  delivered  to  the  various 
city  institutions  or  departments  free  of  charge  for  transportation, 
and  that  the  city  shall  allow  no  charge  for  packages. 

Sec.  14.  When  the  Commissioner  of  Supplies  tinds  any  party 
engaged  in  selling  or  delivering  any  article  to  the  city,  who  has 
failed  or  refuses  to  comply  with  the  terras  of  his  contract  or 
agreement,  or  when  a  party  fails  to  make  restitution  to  the  City 
of  St.  Louis  for  any  loss  the  city  has  met  by  failure  or  neglect  on 
his  part  to  comply  with  the  terms  of  this  agreement,  then  the 
Commissioner  of  Supplies,  with  the  consent  and  approval  of  the 
Mayor,  shall  decline  to  receive  any  further  bids  from  said  party 
for  any  articles  to  be  furnished  to  the  city. 

Sec.  15.  The  Commissioner  of  Supplies  shall,  every  three 
months,  or  oftener,  if  deemed  necessary,  advertise  in  the  news- 
papers doing  the  city  printing,  for  at  least  three  days,  for  pro- 
posals for  the  purchase  of  all  surplus,  condemned  or  other  refuse 
property  under  his  control.  Said  advertisement  shall  state  speci- 
fically the  character  and  quality  of  the  article  or  articles  to  be 
disposed  of,  the  time  and  place,  when  and  where  the  bids  shall  be 
opened,  with  the  right  reserved  to  the  Commissioner  to  reject  any 
or  all  bids  ;  Provided,  that  any  rejection  or  award  of  bids  be  done 
by  and  with  the  consent  and  approval  of  the  Mayor. 

Sec.  16.  The  money  received  from  the  sale  of  all  surplus, 
condemned  or  other  refuse  property,  shall,  within  one  week  from 
the  day  of  sale,  be  paid  by  the  Commissioner  into  the  City  Treas- 
ury, taking  the  Treasurer's  receipt  in  triplicate  therefor,  and  filing 
one  of  those  receipts  with  the  Comptroller  and  one  with  the  Audi- 
tor. 

Sec.  17.  The  Commissioner  of  Supplies  shall  have  his  office 
in  the  City  Hall,  or  some  building  belonging  to  thje  city,  to  be 
designated  by  the  Mayor,  and  devote  his  entire  time  to  the  duties 
of  his  office  during  business  hours. 


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Sec.  18.  As  soon  as  the  Commissioner  of  Supplies  shall  be 
appointed  and  qualified,  the  Register  shall  turn  over  to  said  Com- 
missioner all  goods,  stationery  and  property  in  his  possession  and 
belonging  to  the  city,  which  in  contemplation  of  law  is  to  be  in 
custody  of  said  Commissioner,  and  take  his  receipt  therefor. 

Approved  June  14,  1877. 

[10,934.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  establishing  and  regulating  the  office  of  Com- 
missioners on  Charitable  Institutions  and  defining  the  powers  and 
duties  thereof. 

JSe  it  ordained  by  the  Munioipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  /St.  Louis ^ 
as  follows: 

Section  1.  Within  thirty  days  after  the  first  Tuesday  in 
April,  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-nine,  the  Mayor  shall  ap- 
point five  Commissioners  on  Charitable  Institutions,  subject  to 
confirmation  by  the  Council.  They  shall  hold  the  office  for  a 
term  of  four  years,  and  until  their  successors  are  duly  appointed 
and  qualified.  On  the  first  Tuesday  of  April,  eighteen  hundred 
and  eighty-three,  and  every  four  years  thereafter,  the  Mayor  sl^all 
make  appointments  as  herein  provided.  The  Commissioners  shall 
possess  the  qualifications  required  by  section  10,  article  4,  of  the 
Charter,  and  the  appointments  shall  be  made  in  such  a  manner 
that,  as  far  as  practicable,  there  shall  not  be  a  majority  belonging 
to  any  one  relijrious'sect  or  i)olitical  party. 

Sec.  2.  Before  entering  upon  their  duties,  the  said  Commis- 
sioners shall  respectively  take  and  subscribe  to  an  oath  before 
some  Judge  or  Justice  of  the  Peace  or  the  Register,  that  he  pos- 
sesses all  the  qualifications  prescribed  for  his  office  by  the  Charter, 
that  he  will  support  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  and  of 
the  State  of  Missouri,  and  the  Charter  and  ordinances  of  the  Cit}^ 
of  St.  Louis,  and  that  he  will  faithfully  demean  himself  in  office. 

Sec.  3.  The  Mayor  shall  assign  a  suitable  room  in  the  City 
Hall  for  the  use  of  the  Commissioners,  in  which  they  shall  hold  a 
meeting  at  least  once  in  each  month.  They  shall  elect  from  their 
number  a  President,  who  shall  hold  his  office  during  the  time  for 
which  the  Commissioners  are  appointed  and  until  his  successor  is 
elected  and  qualified.  They  may  make  such  rules  and  regulations 
for  the  transaction  of  their  business  as  they  may  deem  expedient, 
not  inconsistent  with  the  Charter  and  ordinances  of  the  city. 
The  Assistant  •Secretary  of  the  Council  shall  act  as  Secretary  of 
the  Commissioners,  and  shall  perform  all  clerical  duties  necessary 
for  the  transaction  of  their  business. 


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Governing  the  Health  Department.  63 

Sec.  4.  The  Commissioners  on  Charitable  Institutions  shall 
have  a  general  visitatorial  supervision  over  all  penal  and  charit- 
able institutions,  supported  wholly  or  in  part  b}^  the  city,  and 
shall  have  full  authority  at  all  times  to  inspect  and  examine  the 
condition  of  such  institutions,  financially  and  otherwise  ;  to  inquire 
and  examine  into  their  methods  of  instruction  and  the  ofovern- 
meut,  treatment  and  management  of  their  inmates ;  the  official 
conduct  of  managers,  superintendents  and  all  other  officers  and 
employes  of  the  same  ;  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  money ; 
the  condition  of  the  buildings,  grounds  and  other  property 
comiected  therewith,  and  into  all  other  matters  pertaining  to 
their  usefulness  'and  good  management;  and  for  these  pur- 
])()ses  they  shall  have  free  access  to  the  grounds,  buildings  and 
all  books  and  papers  relating  to  said  institutions,  and  all  per- 
sons, now  or  hereafter  in  any  manner  connected  with  the  same, 
are  hereby  directed  and  required  to  give  snch  information  and 
afford  such  facilities  for  inspection  as  the  said  Commissioners  may 
require,  and  any  neglect  or  refusal  on  the  part  of  any  officer  or 
])ersoii  connected  with  such  institution  to  comply  with  the  require- 
ments of  this  section,  shall  be  deemed  a  misdemeanor,  and  npon 
conviction  thereof,  before  either  of  the  Police  Justices  of  the  City 
of  St.  Louis,  shall  subject  the  offender  to  a  penalty  for  each  and 
cvely  refusal,  of  a  sum  equal  to  one-tenth  of  the  amount  annnally 
paid  such  person  as  wages  or  salary.  They  shall  have  power,  by 
a  unanimous  vote,  to  remove  any  appointed  officer  or  employe  of 
such  iistitutions,  and  shall  in  case  of  such  removal  notify  the 
Mayor  and  request  him  to  fill  the  vacancy  ;  but  he  shall  have  no 
power  to  reappoint  any  person  so  removed  by  the  Commissioners. 
Prcvlded^  however,  that  before  any  such  removal  shall  be  made 
the  person  accused  shall  have  a  full,  open  and  impartial  hearing 
l)efore  the  Commissioners. 

Sec.  5.  The  said  Commissioners  are  hereby  authorized  and 
required  at  least  once  in  each  month,  and  as  much  oftener  as  they 
may  deem  necessary,  to  visit  all  the  charitable,  penal,  reformatory 
and  correctional  institutions  supported  wholly  or  in  part  by  the 
city,  and  ascertain  whether  the  moneys  appropriated  for  their  use 
are,  or  have  been,  judiciously  and  economically  expended; 
whether  the  objects  of  the  several  institutions  are  being  accom- 
plished and  the  inmates  humanely  and  properly  treated,  whether 
the  laws  and  ordinances  in  relation  to  them  are  fully  complied 
with,  and  the  various  other  matters  referred  to  in  the  fourth 
section  of  this  ordinance.  Such  visitations  shall  be  made  at 
irregular  intervals  and  without  previous  notice  or  information 
to  any  of  the  officials  or  employes  of  the  institutions  visited. 
They  shall  report  in  writing  through  the  Mayor  to  the  Municipal 
Assembly  at  the  opening  of  each  annual  session  of  the  same,  or 


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oftener  if  they  deem  it  necessary,  the  result  of  their  investiga- 
tions, together  with  such  other  information  and  recommendations 
as  they  may  deem  proper,  and  they  shall  recommend  to  the  As- 
sembly such  ordinances  as  they  may  deem  necessary  for  the  wel- 
fiire  of  the  persons  under  their  supervision  and  in  the  interest  of 
the  city. 

Sec.  6.  Until  an  appropriation  is  made  for  this  purpose  the 
Comptroller  shall  furnish  to  the  said  Commissioners  necessary  ac- 
count books,  blanks  and  stationery. 

Sec.  7.  The  said  Commissioners  or  any  one  of  them  shall 
appear  before  any  committee  of  either  House  of  the  Municipal 
Assembly  that  may  require  their  attendance. 

Sec.  8.  Whenever  any  of  the  institutions  under  the  super- 
vision of  the  Commissioners  desire  an  appropriation  for  any 
purpose,  other  than  their  usual  expenses,  they  shall  inquire  care- 
fully and  fully  into  the  ground  of  such  want,  the  purpose  or  pur- 
poses for  which  it  proposes  to  use  the  same,  the  amount  which 
will  be  required  to  accomplish  the  desired  object,  and  into  any 
other  matters  conne<!ted  therewith,  and  shall  report  to  the  Mu- 
nicipal Assembly  the  result  of  such  inquiries  together  with  their 
own  opinions  and  conclusions  relating  to  the  whole  subject. 

Sec.  9.  No  one  of  said  Commissioners  shall  be  directly  or 
indirectly  interested  in  any  contract  for  building,  repairing  or 
furnishing  any  of  the  institutions  under  their  supervision,  nor 
shall  any  officers  of  such  institutions  be  eligible  to  the  office  of 
Commissioner  herein  created.  No  money  shall  be  paid  by  any 
city  officer,  nor  shall  the  city  be  in  any  manner  liable  upon  any 
contract  made  in  violation  of  this  section,  or  in  which  either  of 
said  Commissioners  shall  after  the  inaking  thereof  become  directly 
or  indirectly  interested,  and  any  Commissioner  violating  the  pro- 
visions of  this  section  shall  thereby  vacate  his  office. 

Sec.  10.  The  failure  on  the  part  of  any  Commissioner  ap- 
pointed under  this  ordinance  to  attend  any  three  successive  regular 
meetings  during  any  calendar  year,  except  in  case  of  sickness  or 
absence  from  the  city,  may  be  treated  by  the  Mayor  as  a  resigna- 
tion of  such  non-attending  Commissioner,  and  the  vacancy  be  filled. 
The  annual  reports  of  the  Commissioners  shall  give  the  names 
of  each  Commissioner  present  at  each  of  the  regular  meetings. 

Sec.  11.  The  Commissioners  shall  receive  no  compensation 
for  their  time  or  services,  but  the  actual  expenses  of  each  while 
engaged  in  the  performance  of  the  duties  of  their  office,  and  any 
actual  outlay  required  in  examinations  or  investigations,  on  being 
made  out  and  certified  to  by  a  majority  of  the  Commissioners  at  a 
regular  meeting,  if  approved  by  the  Mayor,  shall  be  paid  out  of  a 
fund  appropriated  for  that  purpose. 

Approved  December  28,  1878. 


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[10,390.] 

AN  ORDINANCE  to  prohibit  the  opening  and  working  of  stoiie 
quarries,  location  and  operation  of  brick  kilns,  and  the  erection 
and  carrying  on  of  soap  factories,  slaughter-houses,  bone  or 
rendering  factories  and  establishments  where  articles  are  pro- 
duced and  manufactured,  the  manufacturing  of  which  is  injurious 
to  the  public  health,  or  which  emit  offensive  odors  to  the  extent 
of  creating  a  nuisance  to  the  surrounding  inhabitants,  within  three 
hundred  feet  of  any  dwelling-house,  built  and  inhabited  before 
such  opening,  location  or  erection,  without  the  consent  in  writing 
of  the  owner  and  of  the  occupant  of  every  such  house. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Municipal  Assembly  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis, 
as  follows: 

Section  1.  Hereafter  no  stone  quarry  shall  be  opened,  or 
brick  kiln  located,  or  soap  factory,  slaughter-house,  bone  or  ren- 
dering factory,  erected  within  the  distance  of  three  hundred 
feet  of  any  dwelling-house,  built  and  inhabited,  before  such 
opening,  location  or  erection,  without  the  consent  in  writing 
of  the  owner  and  of  the  occupant  of  every  such  house.  Any  per- 
son, company  of  persons,  firm  or  corporation  violating  any  or 
either  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  shall  be  deemed  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof,  be  fined  not  less 
than  one  hundred  nor  more  than  five  hundred  dollars. 

Sec.  2.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person,  company  of  per- 
sons, firm  or  corporation,  to  work  a  stone  quarry  or  operate  a 
brick  kiln,  or  carry  on  a  soap  factory,  slaughter-house,  bone  or 
rendering  factory,  opened,  located  or  erected  after  the  passage  of 
this  ordinance,  within  the  distance  of  three  hundred  feet  of  any 
dwelling  house,  built  and  inhabited  before  such  opening,  location 
or  erection,  without  the  consent  in  writing  of  the  owner  and  oc- 
cupant or  occupants  of  every  such  house.  Any  person,  company 
of  persons,  firm  or  corporation  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of 
this  section,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon 
conviction  thereof,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars 
for  each  and  every  day  such  stone  quarry,  brick  kiln,  soap  factory, 
slaughter-house,  bone  or  rendering  factory  is  worked,  operated  or 
carried  on  without  such  consent. 

Sec.  3.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person,  corporation  or 
firm  to  erect  any  building  for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing  or 
producing  any  article,  or  to  manufacture  or  produce  any  article, 
the  manufacturing  of  which  is  injurious  to  the  public  health,  or 
which  in  the  manufacture  thereof  emits  an  ofiensive  odor  to  the 
extent  of  creating  a  nuisance  to  the  surrounding  inhabitants,  with- 


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out  first  having  obtained  the  consent  of  all  the  owners  and  resi- 
dents within  the  distance  of  three  hundred  feet  from  such  contem 
plated  building. 

Approved  October  20,  1877. 


PORTIONS  OF  THE  CHARTER  APPLICABLE  TO  THE 
HEALTH  DEPARTMENT. 

CLAUSE  6,  SECTION  26  OF   ARTICLE    3    OF   THE    CHARTER   DEFINING 
POWERS    OF   MUNICIPAL   ASSEMBLY. 

Sixth — To  establish  and  enfoi'ce  quarantine  laws  and  regula- 
tions ;  to  prevent  the  introduction  and  spread  of  contagious  dis- 
eases ;    to    establish    and    regulate    hospitals,  and  to   secure   the 
general  health  of  the  inhabitants  by  any  measure  necessary ;  to 
regulate  stone  quarries  and  quarrying  of  stone,  and  the  slaughter- 
ing of  animals ;  provide  for  the  erection,  management  and  regu- 
lation of  slaughter-houses ;  prevent  the  driving  of  stock  through 
the  city  :  prohilut  the  erection  of  soap  factories,  stock  yards,  and 
slaughter-houses,  pig  pens,  cow  stables  and   dairies,  coal   oil  and 
vitrol  factories  within  prescribed  limits,  and  to  remove  and  regu- 
late the  same  ;  and  to  regulate  or  prevent  the  carrying  on  of  any 
business  which  may  be  dangerous  or  detrimental  to  the  public 
health,  or  the  mamifactiire  or  vending  of  articles  obnoxious  to  the 
health  of  the  inhabitants ;  and  to  declare,  prevent  and  abate  nuis- 
ances on  public  or  private  property  and  the  causes  thereof;  and 
the  Mayor,  whenever  in  his  opinion  a  nuisance  exists,  on  public 
or  private  property,  or  whenever  a  nuisance  has  been  so  declared 
by  ordinance  or  resolution  of  the  Board  of  Health,  is  authorized 
to  abate   and   remove  such  nuisances,  and  the  cause  thereof  in  a 
summary  manner,  at  the  cost  of  the   o\Vner  or  occupant  of  the 
premises  where  the   nuisance,  or  the   cause  thereof  may  be,  and 
for  that  purpose   may   enter   upon  and  take   possession  of  any 
premises    or   property    where   such   nuisance  may  exist    or   be 
produced. 

SECTION    44,    ARTICLE    4    OF    THE    CHARTER. 

Sec.  44.  All  questions  of  difference  between  the  officers  of 
the  city  att'ecting  their  relative  powers  and  duties  may  be  referred 
by  either  of  them  to  the  Mayor,  who  shall  examine  and  determine 
such  questions,  and  his  decision  shall  be  final  as  between  such 
officers. 

SECTION    14,    ARTICLE    4    OF   THE    CHARTER. 

Sec.  14.  The  Sheriff*,  Coroner  and  Marshal  may  have  such 
deputies  as  may  be  provided  by  ordinance.     The  assistants  of  any 


Governing  ike  Health  Department,  6*? 

officer  shall  hold  their  position  during  good  behavior,  unless 
otherwise  provided  by  ordinance,  but  may  be  removed  for  cause 
by  the  Mayor,  or  by  the  officer  under  whom  they  work,  at  his 
pleasure.  All  offices  of  the  several  departments  of  the  city  shall 
be  in  the  City  Hall  or  some  other  building  owned  by  the  city, 
unless  otherwise  specially  provided  by  the  Assembly. 

SECTION  11,  ARTICLE  16  OF  THE  CHARTER. 

Sec.  11.  Any  member  or  officer  of  either  house  of  the  Assem- 
bly, and  any  officer  of  the  city,  and  any  member  or  officer  of  any 
board  organized  under  or  in  connection  with  the  city  government 
pursuant  to  any  law  of  this  State,  who  shall  in  his  official  capacity, 
or  under  color  of  his  office,  knowingly  or  willfully,  or  corruptly 
vote  for,  assent  to,  or  report  in  favor  of,  or  allow  or  certify  for 
allowance,  any  claim  or  demand  against  the  city  or  any  depart- 
ment thereof,  or  against  any  such  board  as  above  mentioned, 
which  claim  or  demand  shall  be  on  account  or  under  color  of  any 
contract  or  agreement  not  authorized  by  or  in  pursuance  of  the 
provisions  of  this  charter,  or  any  claim  or  demand  against  the  city 
or  any  department  thereof,  or  any  such  board  as  aforesaid,  which 
claim  or  demand,  or  any  part  thereof,  shall  be  for  work  not  in  fact 
performed  for  and  by  authority  of  said  city  or  such  board,  or  for 
supplies  or  materials  not  actually  furnished  thereto,  pursuant  to 
law  or  ordinance,  and  every  such  member  or  officer  as  aforsaid, 
who  shall  knowingly  vote  for,  assent  to,  assist  or  otherwise  permit 
or  aid  in  the  disbursement  or  disposition  of  any  money  or  property 
belonging  to  the  city  or  any  department  thereof,  or  held  by  or  in 
charge  of  any  such  board  as  aforesaid,  to  any  other  than  the  spec- 
ific use  or  purpose  for  which  such  money  or  property  shall  be,  or 
shall  have  been  received  or  appropriated,  or  collected  or  authorized 
by  law  to  be  collected,  shall  upon  conviction  thereof,  be  punished 
by  imprisonment  in  the  city  jail  for  not  more  than  one  year,  or 
by  fine  not  less  than  two  thousand,  nor  more  than  ten  thousand 
dollars,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment,  or  by  imprison- 
ment in  the  city  jail  for  not  less  than  six  months,  and  by  fine  of 
not  less  than  five  hundred,  nor  more  than  five  thousand  dollars. 

SECTION  6  ARTICLE  7  OF  THE  CHARTER. 

Sec.  6.  The  Water  Commissioner  may  require  owners  or 
lessees,  or  their  agents,  of  houses,  stores  and  other  buildings  in  the 
city,  or  in  such  parts  thereof  as  he  is  ready  to  supply,  to  take  out 
license  for  the  use  of  water  for  such  house,  store  or  building,  ac- 
cording to  the  rates  and  assessment  as  fixed  by  ordinances  of 
the  city  for  the  use  of  water,  whenever  the  Board  of  Health  of 
the  City  of  St.  Louis  shall,  by  order  duly  made,  declare  that  the 
use    of   water   from    the   Waterworks    of   the  city  in    any  such 


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house,  store  or  building,  is  demanded  as  a  sanitary  measure  for 
the  preservation  of  the  health  of  the  inmates  or  inhabitants  of 
such  house,  store  or  building ;  and  the  said  rate  and  assessment 
shall  be  paid  by  all  such  proprietors,  owners  or  lessees,  or  their 
agents,  as  well  by  those  who  consent  as  by  those  who  refuse  to 
place  in  their  houses,  stores  and  buildings  the  water  pipe  to  con- 
vey the  same,  and  shall  be  payable  whenever  the  Assessor  of 
Water  Rates  shall  have  notified  the  proprietor,  owner,  lessee,  or 
his  or  her  agent,  of  the  readiness  of  said  Water  Commissioner  to 
supply  such  house,  store  or  building  with  water  as  aforesaid. 
The  parties  who  fail  or  neglect  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of 
this  section,  shall  be  subject  to  penalties  as  may  be  provided  by 
ordinance. 


INDEX 


PAGE. 

Article  XII  of  the  Charter  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  relating  to  the  Health 
Department . .  • ^ 

An  ordinance  (10311)  establishing  and  regulating  the  office  of  the  Health 
.  Commissioner 7 

An  ordinance  (10330)  creating  and  establishing  the  Health  Department 

and  Board  of  Health 9 

An  ordinance  (11061)  providing  for  the  government  and  management  of 
the  Hospitals,  Dispensary  and  Insane  Asylum 11 

An  ordinance  (10978)  establishing  Quarantine  Station  and  authorizing 
and  defining  quarantine  regulations 16 

An  ordinance  (10998)  in  relation  to  the  Health  Department,  authorizing 
the  Health  Commissioner  to  remove  malignant,  infectious  or  conta- 
gious disease 19 

An  ordinance  (10615)  in  relation  to  the  Health  Department  in  relation  to 
physicians  practicing  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis  giving  notice  of  con- 
tagious diseases 22 

An  ordinance  (10321)  in  relation  to  the  sale  of  poision 23 

An  ordinance  (10326)  in  relation  to  vital  statistics 24 

An  ordinance  (10329)  to  provide  for  keeping  of  mortuary  records,  estab- 
lishing rules  and  regulations  governing  sextons  of  cemeteries 25 

An  ordinance  (10386)  in  relation  to  the  Health  Department  and  to  regu- 
late the  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery  and  midwifery,  and  to 
regulate  the  issue  of  burial  certificates 27 

An  ordinance  (10990)  regulating  cemeteries  and  the  interment  of  the 
dead 29 

An  ordinance  (10358)  providing  for  the  abatement  of  nuisances 32 

An  ordinance  (10805)  concerning  the  construction  of  privies,  sinks,  basins, 
stationary  tubs  and  their  connection  with  sewers 36 

An  ordinance  (10617)  in  relation  to  streets,  sidewalks,  gutters  and  private 
alleys 39 

An  ordinance  (10750)  to  secure  the  general  health  of  the  inhabitants  of  the 
city  and  to  provide  for  abatement  of  nuisances  on  streets  and  alleys. .     40 

An  ordinance  (10375)  to  prohibit  the  sale  of  any  kind  of  diseased,  cor- 
rupted, adulterated  or  unwholesome  provisions  and  the  sale  of  adul- 
terated drugs  or  medicines 41 

An  ordinance  (10383)  authorizing  and  empowering  the  Board  of  Health 
to  do  all  acts  and  perform  all  functions  heretofore  performed  by  the 
County  Court,  in  relation  to  admission  of  deaf  and  dumb  persons  and 
blind  persons  into  Missouri  institutions  for  their  education 42 

An  ordinance  (10062)  to  provide  for  the  removal  of  dead  animals 43 


Index —  Continued . 

PAGE. 

An  ordinance  (10325)  to  provide  for  the  removal  of  slops 45 

An  ordinance  (10830)  elected  and  appointed  officers,  clerks  and  employes 
to  make  property  list  returns 46 

An  ordinance  (11063)  to  transfer  control  of  the  Morgue  from  the  Health 
Commissioner  to  the  Coronor  and  providing  for  its  management,  etc.    47 

An  ordinance  (10320)  in  relation  to  insane  persons  and  paupers 49 

An  ordinance  (10348  and  10420)  establishing  and  regulating  the  Poor 
House  and  providing  for  its  management 50-52 

An  ordinance  (10359)  establishing  and  regulating  the  office  of  Superinten- 
dent of  Poor  Hoj^e,  prescribing  duties  and  fixing  bond  and  salary. . .     51 

An  ordinance  (10538)  regulating  the  cutting  of  ice  from  ponds,  sink-holes 
and  sloughs 53 

An  ordinance  (10377)  establishing  and  fixing  salaries  of  officers  and  em- 
ployes of  the  Health  Department  not  heretofore  fixed  by  ordinance. .     55 

An  ordinance  (10314)  establishing  Commissioner  of  Supplies  regulating 
the  manner  of  purchasing  articles,  etc 57 

An  ordinance  (10934)  establishing  and  regulating  the  office  of  Commis- 
sioner of  Charitable  Institutions 62 

An  ordinance  (10390)  to  prohibit  the  opening  and  work  of  stone  quarries, 
etc.,  carrying  on  soap  factories,  slaughter-houses,  bone  and  rendering 
factories,  etc 65 

Clause  6,  section  26,  article  3  of  Charter  defining  powers  of  Municipal 
Assembly 66 

Questions  of  difference  between  officers  to  be  refer  red  to  Mayor 66 

Assistants  of  any  officer  to  hold  position  during  good  behavior  unless 
otherwise  provided,  etc 60 

Any  officer  or  person  connected  with  the  city  who  shall  corruptly  certify 
to  an  account  or  bill  shall  be  fined  and  imprisoned 67 

Water  Commissioner  may  require  owners,  agents  or  occupants  of  houses, 
etc.,  to  take  out  water  license  whenever  Board  of  Health  declare  the 
use  of  water  in  said  premises  a  sanitary  measure 67 


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